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Thomas Sikes

1765–1834

An English clergyman and religious writer, he spent more than forty years as vicar of Guilsborough in Northamptonshire. His surviving works show a strong High Church voice, especially on parish life, church authority, and the Bible Society debates of the early 1800s.

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An Address to Lord Teignmouth, president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, occasioned by his address to the clergy of the Church of England

An Address to Lord Teignmouth, president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, occasioned by his address to the clergy of the Church of England

by Thomas Sikes

Extracts from "Sikes on Parochial Communion"

Extracts from "Sikes on Parochial Communion"

by Thomas Sikes

About the author

Thomas Sikes (1765–1834) studied at Oxford, matriculating at St Edmund Hall in 1785, taking his B.A. from Pembroke College in 1788 and his M.A. in 1792. That same year, he became vicar of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, a post he held until his death on December 14, 1834.

Sikes is remembered chiefly through his religious writings. Catalogs and digitized editions show works including A Dialogue Between a Minister of the Church and His Parishioner, A Second Dialogue Concerning Christian Edification, An Address to Lord Teignmouth, and Extracts from "Sikes on Parochial Communion". These titles suggest a writer deeply engaged with Anglican church order, parish worship, and disputes over religious authority in his day.

He also appears in accounts of the High Church circle around Joshua Watson and John James Watson, where he is described as a friend from Oxford and part of a family connected to prominent church figures. No confirmed portrait was found from the sources reviewed.