Thomas Manning (bishop)

Thomas Manning was a Tudor Prior and Bishop.

Life

Elected Prior of Butley, Suffolk in 1528, and Suffragan Bishop of Ipswich[1] in 1536, he had to surrender these offices in 1538 having fallen foul of Thomas Cromwell; after which he was appointed Master of Mettingham College.[2] His will dated 1545, and proved 1546, indicates that his wife pre-deceased him.[3]

References
  1. Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Butley, A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2 (1975), pp. 95-99. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37897. Date accessed: 26 May 2008.
  2. Family tree research
  3. Married Clergy and Pensioned Religious in Norwich Diocese, 1555 (Continued) Baskerville,G: The English Historical Review, Vol. 48, No. 190 (Apr., 1933), pp. 199-228
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