Thomas Gorges (priest)

Thomas Gorges, D.D. (13 February 1603 – 12 December 1667) was an English priest in the 17th century.[1]

Gorges was born in Wraxall, Somerset, and educated at The Queen's College, Oxford.[2] He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1629. He became Archdeacon of Winchester[3] and a Canon of Westminster in 1661, holding both positions until his death.

Notes

  1. ^ Westminster Abbey
  2. ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Gilpin-Greenhaugh
  3. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, pp. 86–87


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