Dictionary of Sydney

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Smith, Thomas 1829-1882

Anglican clergyman whose drunken and dissolute youth helped equip him in establishing a church in one of the poorest and roughest areas of Sydney.
Under his stewardship St Barnabas claimed a congregation of 1200 and a sunday school for 1000 in the 1860s.

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Born
Leominster, Herefordshire, England
21 Dec 1829
Died
Sydney
12 Aug 1882
Buried
14 Aug 1882
Occupation
Position
1857 - 1873