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See also:MORTON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1564-1659) , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:York, and was educated at York and See also:Halifax See also:grammar-See also:schools and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he became See also:fellow on taking his degree. He was ordained in 1592, and held the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of university lecturer in See also:logic till in 1598 he was presented to the living of See also:Long See also:Marston, See also:Yorkshire. He gained a considerable reputation as a See also:Protestant controversialist, and published numerous See also:works against See also:Roman Catholicism, See also:chief among them being the Apologia catholica (16o5) and A Catholicke Appeale (1609). He held successively the deaneries of See also:Gloucester (16o6), See also:Winchester (16og), and a canonry at York (r61o). In 1616 he became bishop of See also:Chester, in 1618 bishop of See also:Lichfield and See also:Coventry, and in 1632 bishop of See also:Durham. On the abolition of the episcopate in 1646 he was assigned a See also:pension, but it was never paid, and the See also:remainder of his See also:life was passed in retirement.
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