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Edward Thornborough (priest)

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Edward Thornborough, DD (b Middlesex 1587; d Worcester 1645)was a 17th-century English priest.[1]

The son of Bishop John Thornborough,[2] he was educated at Merton College, Oxford.[3] Thornborough held livings at Witchampton, Ower Moigne and Turnerspuddle; and was archdeacon of Worcester from 1629 until his death.[4]

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  1. ^ "Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum" London, British Museum, p2501819
  2. ^ The Civil War in Worcestershire, Malcolm Atkin, 1995, p. 25 Alan Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN 0-7509-1050-X.
  3. ^ 1478–1501 Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Thoren-Tozern[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ 'Archdeacons: Worcester', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 7, Ely, Norwich, Westminster and Worcester Dioceses, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1992), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol7/pp113-114 [accessed 16 September 2024].