| 词条 | John Thornborough |
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John Thornborough (1551–1641) was an English bishop. LifeThornborough 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] References1. ^Concise Dictionary of National Biography 2. ^The Civil War in Worcestershire, Malcolm Atkin, 1995, p25 Alan Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire. {{ISBN|0-7509-1050-X}} 3. ^Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620-1660, Ann Hughes, 2002, p85. 4. ^Lithotheorikos, sive, Nihil, aliquid, omnia, antiquorum sapientum vivis coloribus depicta. 5. ^PDF {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115042/http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-927905-5.pdf |date=2007-09-29 }}, p. 31. 6. ^William H. Huffman, Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance (1988), p. 32. Further reading
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