▶Date of birth:  13 May 1913        Place of birth: [Port Talbot] Neath district, Glamorganshire

▶Father:  John Thomas     Mother: Alice Christina Knott

▶Spouse(s): (uncertain)     Date(s) of marriage:       Place(s) of marriage:

▶Occupation: Clergyman

▶Lifestory: Peter was the second son of John Thomas, estate agent, of The Croft, Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, and his wife Alice Christina. At the age of twelve he won second prize of £25 in an educational competition run by Elders & Fyffes Ltd. He trained for the ministry at the London College of Divinity and was awarded ALCD in 1936. He was ordained Deacon in 1936, and Priest (Chelmsford) in 1937.

He was licensed Curate of St Paul’s, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex 1936-8, becoming Curate of St Paul’s, Cheltenham 1938-40; when in Cheltenham he lived at 18 Anlaby Court, Evesham Road at first, moving to 40 Clarence Square by the time he left.

In 1940 he became an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces and Curate-in-Charge at St James’s Church, Stratford-on-Avon, though he remained there only a year. From 1941 until 1944 he also served as Deputation Secretary (West of England) for Barnardo’s Homes, when he was appointed Curate of Tetbury, where he remained until 1948, though in 1946 he was said to be leaving to take over the living of Slad with Uplands, near Stroud. [He is probably the Peter Thomas, born on 13 May 1913, who died, aged ninety-one, at Saxlingham in Norfolk in 2005.]

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Clacton-on-Sea, Essex      Moved from Pittville to: Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire

▶Date of death:   27 March 2005 [?]     Place of death: Saxlingham, Norfolk [?]

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial: St Mary’s Church, Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk [?]

▶Notes:  Later evidence available from Crockford’s?      ID: 13886

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden