Thomas Slythurst

Thomas Slythurst (died 1560) was an English academic and Roman Catholic priest. He was the first President of Trinity College, Oxford. He lost his positions in 1559, on the accession of Elizabeth I of England, by his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy. It has been said that he died in the Tower of London, but this is contested.[1]

Life

Slythurst was born in Berkshire. He was B.A. Oxon, 1530; M.A., 1534; B.D., 1543; and supplicated for the degree of D.D., 1554-5, but never took it. He was rector of Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, from 1545 to 1555, canon of Windsor 1554, rector of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, 1555. He was deprived of these three preferments in 1559.

On 11 November 1556, he was appointed with others by Convocation to regulate the exercises in theology on the election of Cardinal Pole to the chancellorship.

Notes
  1. Clare Hopkins, Trinity: 450 Years of an Oxford College Community (2005), p. 45.
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gollark: Well, you could simply call yourself `user` or `a` or `firecubez` or `computron`.
gollark: For conservation of energy, we just produce as many as possible.
gollark: - Charge conservation: we produce muons and antimuons (both are considered muons)- Conservation of muon-lepton number: muon neutrinos are also emitted in large quantities, but these are weakly interacting- Conservation of baryon number: trickier, we mostly just e-mail excess baryon number to our baryon dumps

References
Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Thomas Slythurst". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Academic offices
Preceded by
initial President		 President of Trinity College, Oxford
1556–1559		 Succeeded by
Arthur Yeldard
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