Thomas Field, D.D. (b. 9 Nov 1855 - d. 20 May 1936)
Ordained 1880
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 28 July 1913 - 1926
Canon of Southwell Minster 1913 - 1936
Thomas Field was the son of Thomas Field of Folkestone, draper. Canon Thomas Field was a distinguished Oxford "classic", he taught at Repton and Harrow (1878 - 1886), and had been Headmaster of King's School at Canterbury (1886 - 1897) before becoming warden of Radley College (1897 - 1913). He was described in those days as being tall, ponderous and swarthy, with a mighty chest and close cut black beard, a man of invincible energy. He was truely the picture of the Victorian Headmaster. People recall a man of elephantine memory, whose singing was an unmelodious roar. A delightful but apocryphal tale is told of Field's days at Radley - that he was left, owing to a sudden conspiratorial silence, to blare forth alone - 'I am a worm and no man'.
The congregation of St. Mary's found him to be a kind a gentle vicar.