Thomas Nevile
English clergyman and academic
About Thomas Nevile
Lived 1548 – 1615 (aged 66–67).
Thomas Nevile ( – 2 May 1615) was an English clergyman and academic who was Dean of Peterborough (1591–1597) and Dean of Canterbury (1597–1615), Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1582–1593), and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1593–1615).
Origins He was born in Canterbury, a son of Richard Neville of South Leverton, Nottinghamshire (who moved to Canterbury in his retirement), a son of Alexander Neville, Escheator of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 1519–20. His mother was Anne Mantell, a daughter of Sir Walter Mantell of Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire. His brother was the scholar Alexander Neville (1544–1614).
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English clergyman and academic
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Thomas Nevile was born in 1548 in Canterbury.
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Thomas Nevile died in 1615.
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