Hugh Thomas (priest)

The Revd Hugh Thomas DD (ca. 1706 - 11 July 1780)[1] was Archdeacon of Nottingham, Dean of Ely Cathedral and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Career

He was educated at Pembroke Grammar School, then Christ's College Cambridge 1724 – 1728 where he was awarded BA. He was admitted a Fellow of the College in 1728 and awarded MA in 1731.

He was afterwards Chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Hutton, and Archdeacon of Nottingham from 1748[2] – 1780.

In February 1754 he was elected Master of Christ's College Cambridge and awarded Doctor of Divinity. In 1758 he was appointed Dean of Ely.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Memorials of Cambridge. Charles Henry Cooper. Cambridge University Press. 2012
  2. ↑ Annals of Nottinghamshire: Thomas Bailey. Simpkin, 1853
  3. ↑ The history and antiquities of the conventual & cathedral church of Ely. James Bentham. Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson, 1812