John Thornborough
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 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
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- 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
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| Church of England titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Dean of York 1589–1617 |
Succeeded by George Meriton |
| 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 | Bishop of Worcester 1617–1641 |
Succeeded by John Prideaux |
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- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ The Civil War in Worcestershire, Malcolm Atkin, 1995, p25 Alan Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN 0-7509-1050-X
- ↑ Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620-1660, Ann Hughes, 2002, p85.
- ↑ Lithotheorikos, sive, Nihil, aliquid, omnia, antiquorum sapientum vivis coloribus depicta.
- ↑ PDF, p. 31.
- ↑ William H. Huffman, Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance (1988), p. 32.
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