Thomas Sanderson (priest)

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Thomas Sanderson (born c. 1561) was an English Anglican priest. [1]

Sanderson was born in London and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, matriculating at the age of 16 in December 1577. [1] He was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1585 to 1594. He was the incumbent at St Lawrence Jewry, in the City of London from 1594 to 1601; and All-Hallows-the-Great also in the city from 1601 to 1606. Sanderson was Archdeacon of Rochester from 1606 until 1614. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Sabery-Saywell
  2. Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, pp. 57–59


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