John Thornborough (1551–1641) was an English bishop.
Life
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. ISBN 0-7509-1050-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.
- ^ "The Making of an Astrologer-Physician" Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, p. 31.
- ^ 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.
