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Thomas Sikes

1765–1834

An Anglican clergyman who spent decades as vicar of Guilsborough, he wrote lively religious pamphlets and dialogues that joined the fierce church 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" relating to Episcopacy, and the sin of Schism

Extracts from "Sikes on Parochial Communion" relating to Episcopacy, and the sin of Schism

by Thomas Sikes

About the author

Thomas Sikes was an English clergyman and religious writer, born around 1765 or 1766. He studied at Oxford, matriculating at St Edmund Hall in 1785, then took his B.A. in 1788 and M.A. in 1792.

That same year he became vicar of Guilsborough in Northamptonshire, a post he held until his death on December 14, 1834. Archival records describe him as an Anglican clergyman and author, and his surviving works show him writing on church order, Christian teaching, schism, and the Bible Society controversies of his day.

His books include A Dialogue Between a Minister of the Church and His Parishioner and An Address to Lord Teignmouth. They suggest a writer deeply engaged in the religious arguments of his time, using plainspoken debate and direct address rather than distant scholarship.