Thomas_Lightfoot
The Ven. Thomas Fothergill Lightfoot, B.D.[1] (4 March 1831 – 12 November 1904) was Archdeacon of The Cape[2] from 1895 to 1904.[3]
Lightfoot was educated at Nottingham High School and St Augustine's College, Canterbury.[4] Following several years as a journalist he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London in 1857.[5] He went to South Africa the following year[6] and was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Cape Town in 1859. After a curacy at St George, Cape Town he was Priest in charge of St Paul, Cape Town[7] then Vicar general of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town and Missionary Canon until his appointment as Archdeacon.[8]