Thomas Vyvyan was an
Oxford
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college
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head
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in the
16th-century
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.
He was a
Fellow
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of
Exeter College, Oxford
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, from 1511 to 1518. He was
Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
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Rectors of Exeter College
1318–1566
1566–1887
*John Neale (Whitsuntide 1566 – deprived 12 October 1570)
* Robert Newton (31 October 1570 – resigned 4 October 1578 (see above ...
, from 27 March 1518 – 8 October 1519.
His brother, also called
Thomas Vyvyan, became
Vicar
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of
Bodmin
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The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordered ...
in 1516. As one of the last priors of Bodmin Priory before the
reformation
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, he was responsible for the construction of its steeple as well as a number of buildings in the area, including the
rectory
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house at
Withiel
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, the mansion house at
Rialton Grange, and the south roof of
Egloshayle
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church. The pope nominally consecrated him as the Bishop of
Megara
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in
Achaia
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, Greece. His tomb is in
St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
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The existing church building is dated 1469–1472 and was until the building of Truro Cathedral ...
which survived the dissolution of the priory.
References
Rectors of Exeter College, Oxford
16th-century English people
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