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Thomas Thornton (c.1541–1629) was an English Church of England clergyman and academic administrator.

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. 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 Library

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1. Charles B. Schmitt (1983). John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7735-1005-0. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
2. University of Oxford (1888). "Vice-Chancellors". The Historical Register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 21–27. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
3. "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
4. The Story of Hereford ed. Johnson and Shoesmith 2016

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