Thomas Pattenson

{{Short description|English priest (late 16th and early 17th centuries)}}

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Thomas Pattenson was an English priest in the late 16th and early 17th centuries."Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict" Hadfield, A: London; Routledge; 2016 {{ISBN|9781409457039}}

Pattenson was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press [https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri06univuoft#page/328/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209- 1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p329 ] In 1568 he became a Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was incorporated at Oxford University in 1577.[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1104-1131 Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Pace-Payton] Pattenson was the archdeacon of Chichester from 1603 until his death in 1607.{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |period=1541–1857|volume=2 |pages=15–17}}