Thomas Dealtry (1825–1882)Deaths. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 2 December 1882; pg. 1; Issue 30680. was an Anglican archdeacon in India in the mid-19th century.National Archives Dealtry was the son of Thomas Dealtry, bishop of Madras.DNB Dealtry, Thomas (1796–1861) A. J. Arbuthnot, revised by Katherine Prior https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7381 Published: 23 September 2004; accessed 18 February 2018 He was educated at Trinity College, CambridgeAlumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p262 and ordained in 1849. After curacies in Raydon and Brenchley he went as a chaplain to the East India Company in Madras, where he was archdeacon from 1861 to 1871. Returning to England he held incumbencies in SwillingtonEcclesiastical Preferments. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 16 May 1872; pg. 5; Issue 27378 and Maidstone. He is credited with being the originator of the custom of throwing rice at a newly married couple, which he had seen in India.Swillington web-site He died on 29 November 1882.'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' The Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, 30 December 1882; pg. 6; Issue 34482. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
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