Details of THOMAS COLEFAX

Born: 1722

Died: 1753

Source: Chaplains in the Jurisdiction of the Presidency of Fort St George from 1647 to 1805 (Rev Frank Perry, The Church In Madras 1904)

Biography: THOMAS COLEFAX only son of Richard Colefax of Shrewsbury; he was educated at Shrewsbury School; and was admitted at St. John's College Cambridge in 1740 aged 18; he graduated B.A. 1744 and M.A. 1748. He arrived at Fort St. George with his wife in June 1752 and died in the following August.