Knox, Thomas (1806-1830)

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In Foster
s Vicesimus of Tunbridge,Kent, Dr [CCE302]; BNC m 26/11/1802, aged 19; BA 1806, MA 1809, B&DD 1824, headmaster of Tunbridge Grammar School 1821; R Runwell and Ramsden Crays Essex 1821 to d 23/7/1843

Fielding (1910) has MI:
HSE Thomas Knox, STP, parochiae hujus per xxxi annos minister Ecclesiae et Ramsden Crays in agro Essexiense rector, Scholae Tonbridgensis, primum alumnus, dein magister reditus fundatoris ampliores proprio opere feliciter recuperavit.Ille hac in sede cum vestes sacerdotales indueret divinum officium celebraturus repentina morte praereptus est V Kal. Sept. MDCCCXLIII. Aetatis LIX Vir si quis alius desideratissius auctoritatem mansuetudine ita temperavit ut discipulos miris modis sibi devincat. Concionator, voce plena et canora, ardens, eloquens, nervosus, et vere Christianus indulgentia, in liberos largitate, in egenos misericordia, in calamitosos comitate, in vicinos benevolentia, in omnes commemorabilis in rebus publicuis et in suis diligens et utilissimus.' [He died in a fit while in the vestry where he gone to put on a surplice for Communion.]

Sermons mentioned in J Wilson, "Tricks of the Radicals": The Politics of Urban Discontent in Three Towns in the West Kent Weald between 1829 and 1833 (MA thesis, King's College London, 2006)

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