John Thornborough

English bishop

The Right Reverend John Thornborough

Personal details
Born	1551 Salisbury, England
Died	1641 (aged 89–90)
Nationality	English

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.

External links

"Thornborough, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Matthew Hutton	Dean of York 1589–1617	Succeeded by George Meriton
Preceded by William Casey	Bishop of Limerick 1593–1603	Succeeded by Bernard Adams
Vacant since 1593 Title last held by Richard Fletcher	Bishop of Bristol 1603–1617	Succeeded by Nicholas Felton
Preceded by Henry Parry	Bishop of Worcester 1617–1641	Succeeded by John Prideaux

Bishops of Bristol

For the sole Bishop suffragan of Bristol, see Henry Holbeach

Bristol (1542)

Paul Bush
John Holyman
Richard Cheyney
John Bullingham
Richard Fletcher
John Thornborough
Nicholas Felton
Rowland Searchfield
Robert Wright
George Coke
Robert Skinner
Thomas Westfield
Thomas Howell
Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
Gilbert Ironside (Er)
Guy Carleton
William Gulston
John Lake
Gilbert Ironside (Yr)
John Hall
John Robinson
George Smalridge
Hugh Boulter
William Bradshaw
Charles Cecil
Thomas Secker
Thomas Gooch
Joseph Butler
John Conybeare
John Hume
Philip Yonge
Thomas Newton
Lewis Bagot
Christopher Wilson
Spencer Madan
Reginald Courtenay
Folliott Cornewall
George Pelham
John Luxmoore
William Lort Mansel
John Kaye
Robert Gray
Joseph Allen
Diocese dissolved; see Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol

Bristol (1897)

v t e Bishops of Worcester
Early medieval	Bosel Oftfor Egwin of Evesham Wilfrith (I) Milred Waermund Tilhere Heathured Denebeorht Heahbeorht Ealhhun Werferth Æthelhun Wilfrith (II) Koenwald Dunstan Oswald Ealdwulf
High medieval	Wulfstan (I) Leofsige Beorhtheah Lyfing Ælfric Puttoc Lyfing Ealdred Wulfstan (II) Samson Theulf Simon John de Pageham Alured Roger Baldwin of Forde William of Northall Robert FitzRalph Henry de Sully John of Coutances Mauger Randulf of Evesham Walter de Gray Sylvester William de Blois Walter de Cantilupe Nicholas of Ely Godfrey Giffard
Late medieval	John St German William Gainsborough Walter Reynolds Walter Maidstone Thomas Cobham Wulstan Bransford Adam Orleton Simon Montacute Thomas Hemenhale Wulstan Bransford John of Thoresby Reginald Brian John Barnet William Whittlesey William Lenn Walter Lyghe Henry Wakefield Robert Tideman of Winchcombe Richard Clifford Thomas Peverel Philip Morgan Thomas Polton Thomas Brunce Thomas Bourchier John Carpenter ("Bishop of Worcester and Westbury") John Alcock Robert Morton Giovanni de' Gigli
Early modern	Silvestro de' Gigli Girolamo Ghinucci Hugh Latimer John Bell Nicholas Heath John Hooper, Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester Nicholas Heath Richard Pate Edwin Sandys Nicholas Bullingham John Whitgift Edmund Freke Richard Fletcher Thomas Bilson Gervase Babington Henry Parry John Thornborough John Prideaux Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) George Morley John Gauden John Earle Robert Skinner Walter Blandford James Fleetwood William Thomas Edward Stillingfleet William Lloyd John Hough Isaac Maddox James Johnson Brownlow North Richard Hurd
Late modern	Folliott Cornewall Robert Carr Henry Pepys Henry Philpott John Perowne Charles Gore Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs Ernest Pearce Arthur Perowne William Wilson Cash Mervyn Charles-Edwards Robin Woods Philip Goodrich Peter Selby John Inge

v t e Deans of York
High Medieval	Hugh William of St. Barbara Robert of Ghent Robert Butevilain Hubert Walter Henry Marshal Simon of Apulia William Testard Hamo Roger de Insula Geoffrey de Norwich Fulk Basset Walter of Kirkham Sewal de Bovil Godfrey Ludham Roger de Holderness/Skeffling William Langton Robert de Scarborough Henry of Newark
Late Medieval	William Hambleton Raymond de Goth William Pickering Robert Pickering William de Colby William Zouche Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord Cardinal Angelicus Grimaud Edmund Stafford Roger Walden Richard Clifford Thomas Langley John Prophet Thomas Polton William Grey Robert Gilbert William Felter Richard Andrew Robert Booth Christopher Urswick William Sheffield Geoffrey Blythe
Early modern	Christopher Bainbridge James Harrington Thomas Wolsey John Yonge Brian Higden Richard Layton Nicholas Wotton Matthew Hutton John Thornborough George Meriton John Scott Richard Marshe William Sancroft Robert Hitch Tobias Wickham Thomas Gale Henry Finch Richard Osbaldeston John Fountayne
Late modern	George Markham William Cockburn Augustus Duncombe Arthur Purey-Cust William Foxley Norris Lionel Ford Herbert Bate Eric Milner-White Alan Richardson Ronald Jasper John Southgate Raymond Furnell Keith Jones Vivienne Faull Peter Moger (acting) Jonathan Frost Dominic Barrington