Thomas Sheafe D.D. (d. 12 December 1639) was an English Canon who served as
Canon of Windsor
The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Foundation
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from 1614 to 1639.
Family
He was the son of Thomas Sheafe, clothier of Cranbook in Kent.
He married firstly to Mary Wilson, by whom at least, his daughter Dorothy who married the minister,
Henry Whitfield.
His son, Revd Thomas Sheafe MD FRCP, was
Gulstonian lecturer
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in 1641, of Binfield, Berkshire.
Career
He was King's Scholar at
Eton College
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and then educated at
King's College, Cambridge
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where he graduated BA in 1585, MA in 1588 BD in 1595 and DD in 1606.
He was appointed:
*Rector of Welford and Withambrook, Berkshire 1597
He was appointed to the ninth stall in
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal peculiar, Royal Peculia ...
in 1614, a position he held until 1639.
Publications
*''Vindiciae Senectutis, or a Plea for Old Age''. Published in London 1639.
[''The Poems of Phineas Fletcher''. C. Tiplady. 1869]
Notes
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1639 deaths
Canons of Windsor
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Year of birth missing