Thomas Stevens FSA (19 September 1841Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1916 – 22 August 1920) was an Anglican bishop, the first Bishop of Barking.Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991
Stevens was born in Salisbury, the son of Thomas Ogden Stevens and his wife, Harriet Wansbrough. He was educated at Shrewsbury, Sherborne and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Magdalene College, Cambridge in May 1901. He was consecrated a bishop on 17 February 1901, at St Margaret's, Westminster, by Archbishop of Canterbury.
His first post was as an Assistant Master at Charterhouse. He then held incumbencies at St Luke, Victoria Docks,EoLFHS Saffron Walden and finally (before his elevation to the episcopate) Vicar of St John's, Stratford.St John's, Stratford He was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Barking in February 1901.The Times, Saturday, Feb 02, 1901; pg. 9; Issue 36368; col D Ecclesiastical intelligence "The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of The Ven T. Stevens, Archdeacon of Essex to be Bishop Suffragan of Barking in the Diocese of St Albans"
He married Anne Elisabeth Bertram, granddaughter of Sir George Clement Bertram, Bailiff of Jersey. Retiring in 1919, he died in Wymondham in 1920."Obituary – Bishop Stevens". The Times Tuesday, Aug 24, 1920; pg. 13; Issue 42497; col F
Stevens was a very active Freemason, initiated as a student in 1861 in Cambridge's Isaac Newton University Lodge. He became Provincial Grand Chaplain for Essex in 1885, and then in 1896 became the joint Grand Chaplain of the United Grand Lodge of England, serving jointly with the Bishop of Llandaff (Richard Lewis), and succeeding the Bishop of Barrow-in-Furness, the Rt Revd Henry Ware.
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