Name Thomas Langley Role Priest | Died 1581 | |
Education Jesus College, Cambridge | ||
Thomas Langley (died 1581) was an English churchman and canon of Winchester Cathedral.
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Life
Langley was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1537–8. He was chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer, and vicar of Headcorn, Kent, in 1548, and may be identical with the Thomas Langley, Protestant reformer and exile, who was admitted into the English church and congregation at Geneva in 1556. Langley was rector of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, from 1557 to 6 October 1559, when Queen Elizabeth presented him to a canonry at Winchester. He was installed on 15 October following. On 7 December 1559 he was presented by the crown to the rectory of Welford, Berkshire.
After twelve years' study he was admitted B.D. at Oxford on 15 July 1560, without having previously taken his master's degree. In 1563 Langley was instituted to the vicarage of Wanborough, Wiltshire, on the presentation of the dean and chapter of Winchester, and held this license until his death, which took place before 31 December 1581. In his will, dated 22 December 1581, and proved 30 January 1582, he expresses a wish to be buried in the chancel of Wanborough Church.
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