Thomas Skevington
{{Short description|English Cistercian monk}}
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Thomas Skevington (also Skeffington, Pace or Patexe) (died 17 August 1533){{cite book|author=Stanley Frederick Hockey|title=Beaulieu, King John's Abbey: A History of Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, 1204-1538|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3QtAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Pioneer Publications Limited|isbn=978-0-9502786-1-2|page=148}} was an English Cistercian monk, abbot of Waverley Abbey and Beaulieu Abbey, and bishop of Bangor from 1509.
Life
The son of John Pace of Leicestershire and his wife Margaret Cobley, daughter of William Cobley, he is said to have been born at Skeffington, the seat of the family of that name.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Skevington, Thomas|volume=52}}
Pace entered the Cistercian Merivale Abbey in Warwickshire, and studied at the Cistercian St Bernard's College, Oxford. As was customary, he took a new name on entering the regular life, and selected what is supposed to have been his birthplace.
Skevington became abbot of Waverley in Surrey in 1477, and then Beaulieu in Hampshire in 1508, according to scholarly identifications of their "Abbot Thomas".{{cite book|author1=David Knowles|author2=David M. Smith|author3=Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke|title=The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377–1540|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjqMN2G8fGoC&pg=PA348|date=13 March 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-86508-1|page=348}}{{cite book|author1=David Knowles|author2=David M. Smith|author3=Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke|title=The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377-1540|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjqMN2G8fGoC&pg=PA267|date=13 March 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-86508-1|page=267}} On 17 June 1509 he was consecrated bishop of Bangor; he retained Beaulieu in commendam, for the rest of his life.{{cite ODNB|id=25673|first=Glanmor|last=Williams|title=Skevington, Thomas}}
At Bangor, Skevington had William Glynne (died 1537) as vicar-general, and was active as a builder. He finished the episcopal palace and built the tower and the nave of Bangor Cathedral. His body was buried at Beaulieu, but his heart was taken to Bangor.
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