Godfrey Thring
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| Born | Godfrey Thring 25 March 1823 |
| Died | 13 September 1903 (aged 80) Shamley Green, Surrey, England |
| Education | Shrewsbury School |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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Godfrey Thring (25 March 1823 – 13 September 1903), was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer.
Godfrey Thring was born at Alford, Somerset, the son of the rector, Rev. John Gale Dalton Thring and Sarah née Jenkyns. He was brother of Theodore Thring (1816–91), Henry, Lord Thring (1818–1907) (a noted jurist and Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury), Edward Thring (headmaster of Uppingham School) and John Charles Thring (a master at Uppingham School and deviser of the Uppingham Rules), and two sisters.[1] The family is commemorated in Alford Church by carved choir seats in the chancel and two memorial windows.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School and graduated in 1845 from Balliol College, Oxford with a BA. He was ordained in the Anglican Church.
In May 1855, Godfrey Thring was part of a tour led by James Finn, the British Consul in Jerusalem going East of the River Jordan. Finn never names any of his companions. However, his name appears in unpublished letters by Reverend Henry Stobart.[2][3]
In 1858 his father united the benefices of Alford and Hornblotton by an Act of Parliament styled the "Thrings Estate Bill" and Godfrey became his father's curate. He built Hornblotton Rectory for Godfrey in 1867.
Godfrey commissioned the architect Thomas Graham Jackson to build new churches at Hornblotton and Lottisham, and became, in Jackson's words, "one of my best and most valued friends".[4] Jackson created for him a remarkable little church, rich in the Arts and Crafts style and strikingly decorated in sgraffito work.[5]
Thring died in 1903 and was buried in Shamley Green, Surrey, England.
