Thomas Suther

{{Short description|Scottish Episcopalian bishop}}

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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = Thomas Suther

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| title = Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney

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| church = Scottish Episcopal Church

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| diocese = Aberdeen and Orkney

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| elected = 1865

| term = 1865-1883

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| death_place = Sanremo, Liguria, Italy

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Thomas George Spink Suther (5 February 1814 – 23 January 1883) was the Scottish Episcopalian bishop of Aberdeen from 1857 to 1865 and first bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1865 to 1883.[http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=927 Crockfords][https://archive.org/details/aberdeenjournaln04unse/page/107 Suther's Grave marker inscription, p. 107][https://books.google.com/books?id=4_6lQjLZmOkC&dq=thomas+george+suther+san+remo&pg=RA2-PA124 The Annual Register, Volume 125 edited by Edmund Burke - Obit indicating born in Scotland][https://archive.org/details/cihm_22739/page/n45 Nova Scotia and Nova Scotians: a lecture delivered before the Literary and Debating Society of Windsor, N.S. and afterward at the Temperance Hall, Halifax, in behalf of the Athenæum]

Suther was born in Edinburgh to Deputy Inspector General Peter Suther, M.D. who was posted to Nova Scotia when his son was an infant. His father was a doctor in the Royal Navy and was stationed at Halifax c.1814-1829. Sutherland was educated at King's College, Windsor in Halifax and ordained in 1837.[https://books.google.com/books?id=L6hPAQAAMAAJ&dq=suther+inspector+of+hospitals+and+fleets+nova+scotia&pg=PA470 Father's obituary][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433070787050;view=1up;seq=457 'The Church of England Magazine, Volume 2 (Jan to July 1837)' p. 15: London: James Burns, 1837][https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/326 Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada, 1903, p. 326]

{{stack|File:Catherine (Fraser) Suther, Aberdeen.png}}

At age 21, Suther moved to Scotland and became a curate in St Paul's and St George's Church, Edinburgh, for 19 years.{{cite book|via=Internet Archive|url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10827118_000/page/n274|page=274|title=Modern Athenians; a series of original portraits of memorable citizens of Edinburgh|author= Benjamin W. Crombie|editor= William Scott Douglas|date=1882|publisher=A. and C. Black}} After curacies in Edinburgh and at St James Scottish Episcopal Church in Leith"Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M p 316: Edinburgh T & T Clark {{ISBN|0-567-08746-8}} he came to St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen in 1856. He died at San Remo on 23 January 1883.Obituary. The Times (London, England), Monday, 29 January 1883; p. 7; Issue 30729.

In 1835, Suther married Catherine Fraser, daughter of James Fraser.