Born: No­vem­ber 30, 1815, Thor­man­by, Eng­land.

Died: March 19, 1843, Wai­ma­te, New Zea­land.

Son of H. R. Whyte­head, Rec­tor of Crayke, Thom­as was ed­u­cat­ed at Bev­er­ley Gram­mar School and St. John’s Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA 1837). He won the Chan­cel­lor’s me­dal for Eng­lish Verse twice, the Hul­se­an prize in 1835, and other awards. He was al­so twenty-se­cond sen­i­or op­t­ime in the Ma­the­ma­tic­al Tri­pos, se­cond in the first class in the Class­ic­al Tri­pos, and Found­a­tion Fel­low of his coll­ege in 1837. In 1838, he was class­i­cal lec­tur­er at Clare Coll­ege, but took Ho­ly Or­ders the next year and left the un­i­ver­si­ty for the cur­a­cy of Fresh­wa­ter, Isle of Wight. In 1841 he was ap­point­ed Chap­lain to Dr. Sel­wyn, Bi­shop elect of New Zea­land, and sailed for that count­ry in 1842. He was ap­point­ed first Prin­ci­pal of the Coll­ege which the Bi­shop es­tab­lished in New Zea­land, but due to an aneur­ysm short­ly af­ter land­ing in New South Wales, he ne­ver held a po­si­tion in New Zea­land. The lit­tle time and strength he had left, he spent cor­rect­ing the Ma­o­ri trans­la­tion of the Bi­ble and Pray­er Book. His works in­clude:

Sources

Hymns

  1. Last of Crea­tion’s Days
  2. Sabbath of the Saints of Old

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