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'''Richard Joshua Thorpe''' (born 13 May 1838 [[Hoghton]]; died 23 October 1920 [[Christchurch]])<ref>[http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_dunedin2003.pdf Blain's Clergy in the Diocese of Dunedin, 1852–1919]</ref> was an [[Anglican]] priest in the second half of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th.<ref>[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]] 1908 p 1185: London, [[Horace Cox]], 1908</ref>

Thorpe was educated at [[Trinity College, Dublin]]<ref>"Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College in the University of Dublin]] (1593–1860)[[George Dames Burtchaell]]/[[Thomas Ulick Sadleir]] Supplement p118: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935</ref> and [[ordained]] in 1862. He served three curacies: at St John,  Dublin (1861–1864); St Andrew the Less, [[Cambridge]] (1864<ref>UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE [[The Morning Post]] (London, England), Friday, 8 April 1864; pg. 6; Issue 28178. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900</ref>-1866) and St John, [[Langley, Essex]] (1866–1867).He was at All Saints, [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]] from 1867 to 1878, where he was also [[archdeacon]] of [[Waimea Plains, Tasman|Waimea]]<ref>[https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/persons/91237 Canterbury Museum]</ref> and [[Dean (religion)|dean]] of [[Nelson, New Zealand|New Zealand]]. He was then the [[Incumbent (ecclesiastical)|incumbent]] of [[Old St. Paul's, Wellington|St Paul, Wellington]].<ref>[https://ehive.com/collections/4366/objects/143362/photograph-black-and-white-portrait-of-the-venerable-richard-joshua-thorpe-vicar-of-st-pauls-188218 Hive]</ref> 
 
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