Barlow, Thomas (1609-03-25 - 1691-10-08)

GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON- 1624
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-1769)
Name
Thomas Barlow
Title
Bishop
Gender
Male
Denomination
Church of England
Lived
b. ca. 1609-03-25 d. 1691-10-08 (old)
Manuscripts
Linked Sermons
Associated Places
Source of Data

Jeanne Shami; Adam Richter; Lucy Busfield

Biographical Sources Consulted

ODNB (Article: 1439), AO (Foster)

Other note

Born sometime in 1608/9. B.A. (1630), M.A. (1633), B.D. (1657), D.D. (1660) from Queen's College, Oxford. Fellow of Queen's beginning in 1633 and provost beginning in 1658. Keeper of the Bodleian Library, 1652-1660. Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford, 1660-1676. Prebendary of Worcester in 1660. Archdeacon of Oxford beginning in 1664. Bishop of Lincoln from 1675 until his death in 1691.

See also: Daniel M. Paltzer, ‘Balancing and Limiting Episcopal Power: Bishop Thomas Barlow’s Use of Common Law in Disputes with Arminian Anglican Clerics’, The Seventeenth Century, 29.2 (2014), pp. 131-152; William Poole, ‘Thomas Barlow’s books at Queen’s’, The Queen’s College Library Newsletter, 3 (2013), pp. 3-7.

GEMMS record created
December 23, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024