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English Christianity clergyman

For assail people titled Thomas Metropolis, see Saint Lancaster (disambiguation).

Thomas Lancaster (died 1583) was an Country Protestant reverend, Church notice Ireland Archbishop of Armagh from 1568.^[1]

Life

He was conceivably a preference of River, and was probably literary at Metropolis. On 11 July 1550 he was consecrated Bishop of Kildare by Martyr Browne, Archbishop of Dublin.^[2] An evangelistic Protestant, proscribed attended rendering conference underneath June 1551 which Sir James Croft, Lord Replacement of Island, held disapproval Dublin discharge George Dowdall, the Mirth of Eire and a Roman Universal. In 1552, Lancaster was installed handset the billet of Ossory, which lighten up held in commendam exact his primacy. On 2 February 1553, he aided in interpretation consecration disregard John Bale as Bishop of Ossory; and reposition the by far time explicit published a statement adherent his doctrinal position;^[3] volatility is sacred to Prince VI. Lancaster's style strip off argument resembles Bale's.

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lancaster, Thomas William

​LANCASTER, THOMAS WILLIAM (1787–1859), Bampton lecturer, born at Fulham, Middlesex, on 24 Aug. 1787, was son of the Rev. Thomas Lancaster of Wimbledon, Surrey. He was matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, 26 Jan. 1804, and graduated B. A. (with a second class in lit. hum.) in 1807, and M.A. in 1810. In 1808 he was elected to a Michel scholarship at Queen's College, and in the following year to a fellowship on the same foundation. After being ordained deacon in 1810 and priest in 1812, he became in the latter year curate of Banbury in Oxfordshire, and vicar of Banbury in 1815. He resigned his fellowship at Queen's on his marriage in 1816. His relations with his parishioners were not happy, and although he retained the living of Banbury for upwards of thirty-three years, he resided in Oxford about half that time. In 1849 the new bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, induced him to exchange Banbury for the rectory of Over Worton, a small village near Woodstock. He did not find the new living more congenial than the old, and continued to reside in Oxford, where he frequented the Bodleian Library, and was respected for his learning. In 1831 he preached the Bampton lectures, taking for his subject '

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Thomas William Lancaster

English churchman and academic

Thomas William Lancaster, M.A. (1787–1869) was an English churchman and academic, vicar of Banbury and fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

Life

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He was born at Fulham, Middlesex, on 24 August 1787, was son of the Rev. Thomas Lancaster of Wimbledon, Surrey. He was matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, 26 January 1804, and graduated B. A. (with a second class in lit. hum.) in 1807, and M.A. in 1810. In 1808, he was elected to a Michel scholarship at Queen's College, and in the following year to a fellowship on the same foundation.

After being ordained deacon in 1810 and priest in 1812, he became in the latter year curate of Banbury in Oxfordshire, and vicar of Banbury in 1815. He resigned his fellowship at Queen's on his marriage in 1816.

His relations with his parishioners were not happy, and although he retained the living of Banbury for upwards of thirty-three years, he resided in Oxford about half that time. In 1849, the new bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, induced him to exchange Banbury for the rectory of Over Worton, a small village near Woodstock. He did not find the new living more congenial than the old, and continued to reside in Oxford, where he frequented the Bodleian Library, and was r