3-078-116 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Rev. Prebendary T. Pitman, Vicar of Eastbourne, 1890. 'The Rev. Thomas Pitman, Vicar of Eastbourne, Sussex, and Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral, died on May 11, in his eighty-ninth year. The son of a solicitor, and one of four brothers, two of whom survive him, he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, took the degree of B.A. in 1825, and that of M.A. in 1827. In 1826 he was admitted to the Church as a Deacon, and became Curate at Brightwell, Oxfordshire. The next year he was ordained a priest, and in 1828 he was presented to the living of Eastbourne by the then Bishop of Chichester. From that time to the present, a period of sixty-one years, he has continued Vicar of the parish. He was installed Prebendary of Wisborough in Chichester Cathedral in 1841; formerly he was Rural Dean. The Portrait is from a photograph by Messrs. G. and R. Lavis, of Eastbourne'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.