Thomas Batchcroft | |
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Born | 1572 |
Died | 1662 |
The Reverend Dr Thomas Batchcroft (1572-1662) was Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. [1] [2] On 15 April 1649 Dr Batchcroft was ejected from the mastership of Caius but returned in 1660.
A Master is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom. The actual title of the head of a college varies widely between institutions.
Gonville & Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is the fourth-oldest college at the University of Cambridge and one of the wealthiest. The college has been attended by many students who have gone on to significant accomplishment, including fourteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-most of any Oxbridge college.
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Preceded by William Dell | Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1660-1660 | Succeeded by Robert Brady |
Preceded by John Gostlin | Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1626-1649 | Succeeded by William Dell |
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