Thomas Brightwell
DD (a.k.a. Brytwell) was an
English medieval college
Fellow
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and university
Chancellor
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.
Brightwell was a Fellow of
Merton College, Oxford
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and
Chancellor
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of the
University of Oxford
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during 1388–90.
He was a
Doctor of Divinity
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.
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English Christian theologians
Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Chancellors of the University of Oxford
14th-century English educators
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