A discourse plainely proving the euident vtilitie and vrgent necessitie of the desired happie vnion of the two famous kingdomes of England and Scotland, 1604
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. ISBN0-7509-1050-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.
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
Precededby
Matthew Hutton
Dean of York 1589–1617
Succeededby
George Meriton
Precededby
William Casey
Bishop of Limerick 1593–1603
Succeededby
Bernard Adams
Vacant
since 1593
Title last held by
Richard Fletcher
Bishop of Bristol 1603–1617
Succeededby
Nicholas Felton
Precededby
Henry Parry
Bishop of Worcester 1617–1641
Succeededby
John Prideaux
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