Thomas Tregenna Biddulph

Thomas Tregenna Biddulph (1763-1838) was an evangelical Anglican minister. He graduated from Queen’s College, Oxford, with a B.A. in 1784 and an M.A. in 1787. After a series of curacies in Padstow, Ditcheat, St. Mary-le-Port, Wansborough and Bengeworth (1793-1803), he became curate of St. James, Bristol, and Dauston in 1799, positions he held until his death in 1838. He was active in the Sunday school movement, the Tract Society, and the Church Missionary Society from their inceptions, as well as the British and Foreign Bible Society. He helped found the periodical Zion’s Trumpet (later The Christian Guardian) in 1795. He was a strong Church and State man, opposed to Roman dogma and Catholic Emancipation as well as parliamentary reform.