Researching Thomas Vicars
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 518 people with the Vicars surname? In that year Vicars was ranked number 3061 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Thomas means "a twin" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Thomas Vicars
Thomas Vicars (1589 – 1638) was a 17th-century English theologian and rhetorician.
He was born in Carlisle in Cumberland (now Cumbria), the son of William and Eve Vicars. He entered Queen's College, Oxford in 1607 as a poor serving child. He then became a tabarder, chaplain and fellow within nine years. In 1622, he was admitted to the reading of the sentences. Recognised as a learned theologian, he entered the household of George Carleton, the Bishop of Chichester, whose step-daughter, Anne, the daughter of the sometime Ambassador to France, Henry Neville of Billingbear House in Berkshire, he married. Carleton made him Vicar of Cuckfield in West Sussex.
His works include:
*Translation of Bartholomew Keckermann's Latin 'Manuduction to Theology', dedicated to 'Lady Anne Neville' (his mother-in-law) and 'Lady Anne Fettiplace of Childrey' in Berkshire, the mother of John Fettiplace MP (1620)*'Manuductio ad artem rhetoricam' (1621)*'A Brief Direction on how to examine Ourselves before we go to the Lord's Table' (1622)*'Confutatio cusjd' (1627)
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