1. Anthony Wilson Thorold was an Anglican Bishop of Winchester in the Victorian era.
11 Facts About Anthony Thorold
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Anthony Thorold married Henrietta Greene and followed his father into a career in the Church of England.
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Anthony Thorold served as vicar of St Giles in the Fields, Curzon Chapel, and St Pancras.
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Anthony Thorold's wife died in 1859 and he married secondly to Emily Labouchere, sister of the MP Henry Labouchere.
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Anthony Thorold had extensive travels, preaching in the United States in the late 19th century.
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Anthony Thorold went on to the Great Salt Lake and noted "There is a bathing station here, and almost all the company, gentlemen and ladies, bathed in the sea, which, from the quantity of salt, it is quite impossible to sink".
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Anthony Thorold travelled on and even reached Alaska before returning home.
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Anthony Thorold was translated to the see of Winchester in 1891, where he would live out his days.
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Unlike his cousin, Bishop Edward Trollope, Anthony Thorold performed little serious scholarship.
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Anthony Thorold did write a number of devotional books, among them The Yoke of Christ, The Gospel of Christ, and The Claim of Christ on the Young.
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Simpkinson wrote The Life and Work of Bishop Anthony Thorold, published by Isbister in 1896.