Thomas Fowle (c. 1530 – after 1597) was a Church of England clergyman, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, rector of Redgrave and Hinderclay, Suffolk, and prebendary of Norwich Cathedral.
Overview
Thomas Fowle (c. 1530 – after 1597) was a Church of England clergyman, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, rector of Redgrave and Hinderclay, Suffolk, and prebendary of Norwich Cathedral.
He was briefly tutor to Edward de Vere, the future Earl of Oxford, and was later chaplain to Sir Nicholas Bacon.
Life
Fowle was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he matriculated from St John's in 1547, graduated BA in 1549/50 and proceeded MA in 1553. He was elected a Fellow of St John's, but under Queen Mary I was ejected. He then served in or near the City of London as a minister to a secret congregation of Protestants.
On 4 May 1558, Fowle began to receive a salary of ten pounds a year as tutor to the young Edward de Vere, then aged eight. In November of the same year, de Vere matriculated as a fellow-commoner of Queens' College, Cambridge.
