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Young, Thomas, 1587-1655


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    • Philo-Kuriaces, Theophilus, 1587-1655
    • Theophilus Philo-Kuriaces, 1587-1655
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    • found: NUC pre-1956(Young, Thomas, 1587-1655)
    • found: InU/Wing STC files(usage: Theophilus Philo-Kuriaces)
    • found: Halkett & Laing(Smectymnuus; a word composed of the initials of the authors, viz. Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstowe)
    • found: LC data base, 12/3/84(hdg.: Young, Thomas, 1587-1655)
    • found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site, viewed March 7, 2024(Young, Thomas; Church of England clergyman and college head; probably born in Luncarty, Perthshire, about 1587; graduated MA in July 1606, St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews; in 1614 he was appointed to the vicarage of Resolis in Ross, a living he held until 1649, largely as a non-resident; he became a pluralist early in his ministerial career, remaining one until the last years of his life; in either 1617 or 1618 he became the tutor of the future poet John Milton, ending some time before April 1620 with his appointment as chaplain to the English Merchant Adventurers in Hamburg; his 8 year ministry ended with his return to England on March 27, 1628; he was instituted to the living of St Peter and St Mary, Stowmarket, Suffolk, his permanent home for the rest of his life; his principal work was Dies dominica; he joined with William Spurstowe, Edmund Calamy, Stephen Marshall, and Matthew Newcomen, writing under the name Smectymnuus, to launch an attack on "the prelaticall church"; the outbreak of the Civil War kept him in London; in 1643 the Earl of Manchester appointed him to the parish of St James's, Duke's Place, and during the same year he was nominated to represent Suffolk in the Westminster assembly of divines, where he argued the presbyterian position; on April 12, 1644 he was installed as master of Jesus College, Cambridge; he proceeded DD in 1649, but, suspected of writing a remonstrance against the engagement, and refusing to take it, he was ejected from the College on January 1, 1651; died at Stowmarket on November 28, 1655)
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    • [Do not confuse with the student of Staple Inn, nr 93010793]
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    • 1984-12-19: new
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