Thomas Thornton (academic administrator)

For other people named Thomas Thornton, see Thomas Thornton (disambiguation).

Thomas Thornton (c.1541–1629) was an English Church of England clergyman and academic administrator.^[1]

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.^[2][3] 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^[4]