Thomas Hobbs (priest)

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Thomas Hobbs (died 1509) was a Dean of Windsor from 1507 to 1509. [1]

Dean of Windsor head of the Canons of St Georges Chapel at Windsor Castle

The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The Dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as primus inter pares. The post of dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480.

Career

He was appointed:

All Souls College, Oxford college of the University of Oxford

All Souls College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1502 and held the canonry until 1507, when he was appointed Dean of Windsor, and he held this until he died.

St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle Church in Windsor, England

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England, is a chapel designed in the high-medieval Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar, a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter. Seating approximately 800, it is located in the Lower Ward of the castle.

Notes

  1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

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