T. S. (Thomas Suter) Ackland

Born in 1817 and dying in 1892, Thomas Suter Ackland was an English Anglican clergyman and author whose surviving reputation rests mainly on his religious and apologetic writing. Sources connected with editions of his work describe him as a former Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Vicar of Wold Newton, Yorkshire.

He is most closely associated with The Story of Creation as Told by Theology and by Science, a book that tries to reconcile the Bible’s creation account with nineteenth-century scientific thought. That makes him an interesting figure for listeners drawn to the long conversation between religion and science in the Victorian period.

Reliable biographical detail on Ackland appears to be quite limited online, so it is best to treat him as a relatively obscure author known chiefly through this work and a small footprint in library and reprint records.