Giles Thomson
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Giles Thomson (Tomson, Thompson) (1553–1612) was an English academic and bishop.
Life
He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and to University College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1571. He became a Fellow of All Souls College in 1580, and Divinity Reader at Magdalen College. Queen Elizabeth made him one of her chaplains.Arthur Tozer Russell, Memoirs of the life and works of the Right Honorable and Right Rev. Father in God Lancelot Andrewes, D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester (1860), p. 3.
He became Dean of Windsor in 1602, and took part in the Hampton Court Conference of 1604.{{cite web |url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/king-james-bible/features/hampton-court |title=ICONS of England | Culture24 |publisher=Icons.org.uk |access-date=2012-02-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517083408/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/king-james-bible/features/hampton-court |archive-date=2009-05-17 }} He was a translator for the King James Bible, a member of the Second Oxford Company.{{cite web|url=http://www.advancementofgrace.com/lucas/timelines/tbt/1600.html |title=The Advancement of Grace |publisher=The Advancement of Grace |access-date=2012-02-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220051856/http://www.advancementofgrace.com/lucas/timelines/tbt/1600.html |archive-date=2012-02-20 }}[http://www.baptistpillar.com/bd0059.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605155638/http://www.baptistpillar.com/bd0059.htm |date=June 5, 2008 }}
He became Bishop of Gloucester in 1611, but died before visiting the see.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35314 |title=Bishops | Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: volume 8 (pp. 40-44) |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date=2003-06-22 |access-date=2012-02-13}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/bishops_of_gloucester.htm |title=Bishops of Gloucester |publisher=Tudorplace.com.ar |access-date=2012-02-13}}{{Unreliable source?|certain=y|reason=self published website; and Jorge H. Castelli is not an expert|date=January 2015}} There is a monument to him in the Chapel of St George, Windsor.{{cite web|url=https://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/winguide06b.html |title=A Guide to St George's Chapel in c.1811 - The Royal Windsor Web Site |publisher=Thamesweb.co.uk |access-date=2012-02-13}}
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Category:Bishops of Gloucester
Category:17th-century Church of England bishops
Category:Translators of the King James Version
Category:People of the Elizabethan era
Category:Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford
Category:Anglican clergy from London
Category:16th-century English translators