John Thornborough
The Right Reverend John Thornborough | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 1551 Salisbury, England |
Died | 1641 (aged 89–90) |
Nationality | English |
John Thornborough (1551–1641) was an English bishop.
Life
Thornborough was born in Salisbury, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford.
In a long ecclesiastical career, he was employed as a chaplain by the Earl of Pembroke, and Queen Elizabeth. He was Dean of York, Bishop of Limerick in 1593, Bishop of Bristol in 1603, and Bishop of Worcester from 1617.[1] He was appointed Clerk of the Closet in 1588, serving Queen Elizabeth I in that capacity until the end of her reign in 1603.
He was tolerant of Puritans, encouraging his congregation to attend puritan lectures.[2] He also shielded the future biographer Samuel Clarke (1599–1683).[3]
He wrote an alchemical book, Lithotheorikos of 1621.[4] He is known to have employed Simon Forman.[5] Robert Fludd dedicated Anatomiae Amphitheatrum (1623) to Thornborough.[6]
References
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ The Civil War in Worcestershire, Malcolm Atkin, 1995, p. 25 Alan Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN 0-7509-1050-X.
- ^ Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660, Ann Hughes, 2002, p. 85.
- ^ Lithotheorikos, sive, Nihil, aliquid, omnia, antiquorum sapientum vivis coloribus depicta.
- ^ "The Making of an Astrologer-Physician" Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, p. 31.
- ^ William H. Huffman, Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance (1988), p. 32.
Further reading
- A. L. Rowse, "Bishop Thornborough: A Clerical Careerist", in Richard Ollard and Pamela Tudor-Craig (editors), For Veronica Wedgwood These Studies in Seventeenth-Century History (1986)
External links
- "Thornborough, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Church of England titles | ||
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Preceded by Matthew Hutton | Dean of York 1589–1617 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by William Casey | Bishop of Limerick 1593–1603 | Succeeded by Bernard Adams |
Vacant since 1593 Title last held by Richard Fletcher | Bishop of Bristol 1603–1617 | Succeeded by Nicholas Felton |
Preceded by Henry Parry | Bishop of Worcester 1617–1641 | Succeeded by |
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- Paul Bush
- John Holyman
- Richard Cheyney
- John Bullingham
- Richard Fletcher
- John Thornborough
- Nicholas Felton
- Rowland Searchfield
- Robert Wright
- George Coke
- Robert Skinner
- Thomas Westfield
- Thomas Howell
- Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
- Gilbert Ironside (Er)
- Guy Carleton
- William Gulston
- John Lake
- Gilbert Ironside (Yr)
- John Hall
- John Robinson
- George Smalridge
- Hugh Boulter
- William Bradshaw
- Charles Cecil
- Thomas Secker
- Thomas Gooch
- Joseph Butler
- John Conybeare
- John Hume
- Philip Yonge
- Thomas Newton
- Lewis Bagot
- Christopher Wilson
- Spencer Madan
- Reginald Courtenay
- Folliott Cornewall
- George Pelham
- John Luxmoore
- William Lort Mansel
- John Kaye
- Robert Gray
- Joseph Allen
- Diocese dissolved; see Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol