Background
Tidball, Thomas Allen was born in 1847 in Winchester, Virginia, United States. Son of Alexander Scot and Catherine (Macky) Tidball.
Tidball, Thomas Allen was born in 1847 in Winchester, Virginia, United States. Son of Alexander Scot and Catherine (Macky) Tidball.
Preparatory education Cbarlestown Academy, West Virginia. Law student, 1865-1867. Graduate Theological Seminary, Virginia, 1871.
(Doctor of Divinity, William and Mary, 1878).
Deacon, 1871, priest, 1872, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1872-1878, Christ Church, Lexington, Kentucky, 1878-1885, St. Paul’s Church, Camden, New Jersey, 1885-1892. Elected bishop of Tokyo, Japan, 1892.
Rector Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, Philadelphia, 1893-1903. Chaplain University of Pennsylvania, 1894-1895, University of Virginia, 1901. Professor ecclesiastical history, since 1904, chaplain, 1907, University of the South.
Author: Christ in the New Testament, 1891. The Making of the Church of England, 1918. Address: Sewanee, Tennessee.
Married Mary Josephine Browne, of Accomac, Virginia, 1872.