Thomas Thirlby

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Thomas Thirlby was an English cleric — one of the confessor bishops loyal to the Pope during the reformation.

He was the only Bishop of Westminster, between 1540 and 1550. He was then made Bishop of Norwich until 1554 then became Bishop of Ely. In 1559 he was deposed as Bishop of Ely by the newly-acceded Queen Elizabeth.