Thomas Thornton (academic administrator)

{{Short description|Church of England clergyman and academic administrator}}

{{other people|Thomas Thornton}}

Thomas Thornton (c.1541–1629) was an English Church of England clergyman and academic administrator.{{cite book|author=Charles B. Schmitt|title=John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDI9lnhnMq0C&pg=PA113|access-date=21 January 2013|year=1983|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press|isbn=978-0-7735-1005-0|page=113}}

Thornton received a Bachelor of Divinity degree followed by a Doctor of Divinity degree at Oxford University. He was based at Christ Church, Oxford and was a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. He was twice vice-chancellor at the University of Oxford during 1583–4 and 1599–1600.{{cite book| title=The Historical Register of the University of Oxford|author=University of Oxford|author-link=University of Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |year=1888|pages=21–27|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/university-of-oxford/the-historical-register-of-the-university-of-oxford-completed-to-the-end-of-tri-hci/page-2-the-historical-register-of-the-university-of-oxford-completed-to-the-end-of-tri-hci.shtml|chapter=Vice-Chancellors|access-date=July 25, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/|title=Previous Vice-Chancellors | publisher=University of Oxford, UK|access-date=July 25, 2011}}

He was also Precentor of Hereford Cathedral from 1573, and Master of the Library there from 1595; he re-organized the library and had new bookcases installed on the model of those in the Bodleian LibraryThe Story of Hereford ed. Johnson and Shoesmith 2016