Thomas Fancourt (22 January 1840 – 1 February 1919) was an Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Wellington from 1888 until his death.
Fancourt was born in Malvern, Worcestershire in 1840. He was educated at Lancing College and St Augustine's College, Canterbury and ordained in 1867. After a curacy at Porirua he was the incumbent at St James, Lower Hutt then St John, Johnsonville before his appointment as Archdeacon. He died at Wellington on 1 February 1919.
References
- St Luke, Wadestown Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
- "Wellington Cathedral of Saint Paul" Blain, M p42: Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington (VUP), 2002 ISBN 086473428X
- ‘FANCOURT, Ven. Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 21 Feb 2016
- Cyclopedia of New Zealand
- Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p477: London, Horace Cox, 1908
- Johnsonville Anglican
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