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Thomas Lathbury
1798–1865
A nineteenth-century Anglican clergyman and church historian, he wrote detailed works on the English episcopacy, convocation, and the Book of Common Prayer. His books reflect the religious debates of Victorian England and a lifelong interest in the history of the Church of England.
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Guy Fawkes; Or, A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605
by Thomas Lathbury
About the author
Born in Brackley, Northamptonshire, in 1798, he was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1824 and his M.A. in 1827. After entering holy orders, he served in a series of curacies, including Chatteris, Bath, Wootton, and Mangotsfield.
He became especially known as an ecclesiastical historian. Alongside parish work, he published substantial studies on the Church of England, including books on English episcopacy, convocation, and the Book of Common Prayer, as well as works shaped by the religious controversies of his day.
Later in life he held the rectory of Hartley Wespall in Hampshire. He died on February 11, 1865, remembered chiefly for the way he combined clerical life with careful historical writing on Anglican institutions and traditions.