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Thomas Singleton (academic)

Thomas Singleton (academic)

English academic administrator

Thomas Singleton (1552 – 29 November 1614) was an English clergyman and academic.

Singleton studied at Clare Hall, Cambridge for four years,[1] before moving to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1573. He graduated B.A. 1574, M.A. 1578, B.D. 1586, D.D. 1597. He became a Fellow of Brasenose in 1576,[2] and was Proctor in 1585–86.[3] He was Principal of Brasenose College from 1595 until his death in 1614.[4] He was twice Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford during 1598–9 and 1611–14.[5][6]

In the church, Singleton was a canon of St Paul's Cathedral from 1597, and of Hereford Cathedral from 1614.[2][7]

Singleton died on 29 November 1614, and was buried in St Mary's Church.[2]

References

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    "Singleton, Thomas (SNGN566T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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    Foster, Joseph, ed. (1891). "Rabbetts-Rhodes". Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714. Oxford. pp. 1350–1368. Retrieved 21 August 2022 – via British History Online.
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    Pointer, John (1749). Oxoniensis Academia: Or, The Antiquities and Curiosities of the University of Oxford. Oxford: S. Birt and J. Ward. p. 228. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
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    Ayliffe, John (1714). The Antient and Present State of the University of Oxford. E. Curll. p. 499. Retrieved 26 April 2019. thomas singleton university of oxford.
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    University of Oxford (1888). "Vice-Chancellors". The Historical Register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 21–27. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  6. [6]
    "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  7. [7]
    Charles B. Schmitt (1983). John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7735-1005-0. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
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