Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Watson
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Title
Date(s)
- 1558-1592 (Creation)
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Subseries
Extent and medium
9 items, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Thomas Watson was born near Durham in 1515. Watson matriculated in 1529 and received his B.A. in 1532/3 and his M.A. in 1536. He received his degree in theology in 1543, the year in which he became domestic chaplain to Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.
On the accession of Queen Mary, Watson was admitted Master 28 September 1553, but he soon left the College, being appointed Dean of Durham 18 November 1553; he was then appointed Bishop of Lincoln by Papal Bull dated 24 March 1556-1557, but was deprived of his bishopric on the accession of Queen Elizabeth I and spent the rest of his life in imprisonment or restraint of various kinds.
For more information see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography