About Thomas Wilcox
Lived 1549 – 1608 (aged 58–59). Thomas Wilcox was a British cleric.
Thomas Wilcox ( – 1608) was a British Puritan clergyman and controversialist.
Life
In 1571, with John Field he authored the Admonition to Parliament, that called for the removal of bishops and ecclesiastical hierarchy. Wilcox and Field were imprisoned for one year for this. Wilcox and Field appealed to Lord Burghley (in Latin) and to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, for support. Leicester with the Earl of Warwick had Wilcox released. Later Lady Anne Bacon was his patron.
His eldest daughter married the Puritan John Burges, as his second wife.
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English clergyman
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Thomas Wilcox was born in 1549.
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Thomas Wilcox died in 1608.
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Thomas Wilcox was a cleric.
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Thomas Wilcox was British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Thomas Wilcox. https://biography.guide/thomas-wilcox/
MLA: "Thomas Wilcox." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/thomas-wilcox/.
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