Thomas Jacomb

Thomas Jacomb (1622–1687) was an English ejected minister.

Life He was the son of John Jacombe of Burton Lazars, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He was educated at Melton free school, and for two years under Edward Gamble at Newark grammar school. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in the Easter term, 1640; and when the First English Civil War broke out moved to St John's College, Cambridge (28 October 1642), where he graduated B.A. in 1643. Shortly afterwards he signed the covenant, and became a fellow of Trinity College in place of an ejected royalist.

Jacomb completed his M.A. in 1647. In the same year he took Presbyterian orders, became chaplain to the Countess-dowager of Exeter, widow of David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter; he held this post for the rest of his life. He also received the living of St. Martin's, Ludgate Hill, on the sequestration of Dr. Michael Jermyn. He was appointed by parliament an assistant to the London commissioners for ejecting insufficient ministers and schoolmasters, and in 1659 he was made one of the triers of ministers. He was buried on 3 April at St. Anne's, Aldersgate, with a large number of conforming and nonconforming ministers attending his funeral. The sermon was preached by William Bates. He had collected a library that sold after his death for £1,300. Samuel Rolle in his Prodromus speaks of Jacomb as a person of "high repute for good life, learning, and excellent gravity". Pepys was pleased by his preaching. The active and publick spirit

Jacombe subscribed his name to a letter against the Quakers, which called forth a pamphlet by William Penn, entitled A Just Rebuke to one-and-twenty learned Divines (so called) …, London, 1674. His two farewell sermons, preached on 17 August 1662, were published separately with a portrait (1662), again in a collection of other sermons, entitled The London Ministers' Legacy (1662), and in Farewell Sermons of some of the most eminent of the Nonconformist Ministers, London, 1816.