T. H. Stokoe

The Rev. Dr Thomas Henry Stokoe DD (1833 – 8 December 1903), known as T. H. Stokoe and as Dr Stokoe, was an English clergyman, schoolmaster, author and headmaster.

He began his teaching career at Marlborough College and Uppingham School, was second master of Clifton College and then head of Richmond Grammar School in North Yorkshire, of Reading School, and of King's College School.

His Old Testament History for Schools was a standard textbook which went through numerous editions.

The only son of Robert Stokoe, gentleman, of Hexham, Northumberland, Stokoe was educated at Uppingham and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he matriculated at the age of seventeen on 26 March 1851, and became an exhibitioner. In 1855 he took first class honours in Greats, graduating BA. He proceeded MA in 1857 and in 1859 won the University's Denyer Prize in Theology.

Stokoe became a deacon of the Church of England in 1857 and was ordained a priest by Thomas Musgrave, Archbishop of York, in 1858. He taught at Marlborough College in 1857–1858 before returning to Uppingham as an assistant master.

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