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English Roman Catholic priest and martyr
Thomas Tichborne
(1567 – 20 April 1602) was an English
Roman Catholic
priest. He is regarded as a Catholic martyr.
Life
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Born at
Hartley Mauditt
,
Hampshire
, in 1567, Thomas was a younger son of Nicholas Tichborne and Mary Myll.
[1]
Nicholas died in Winchester Gaol about 1588/9 and was brother to Peter Tichborne, father of
Chidiock Tichborne
. Nicolas and Peter were grandsons of John Tichborne of Tichborne and Margaret Martin from whom the Tichborne baronets are also descended.
He was educated at
Reims
(1584?87) and Rome, where he was ordained on Ascension Day, 17 May 1592. Returning to England on 10 March 1594, he worked in
Hampshire
. There he escaped apprehension by the authorities until the early part of 1597.
[2]
He was sent a prisoner to the
Gatehouse
in London, but in the autumn of 1598 was helped to escape by his brother,
Nicholas Tichborne
, and
Thomas Hackshott
, who were both executed shortly afterwards. Betrayed by Atkinson, an apostate priest, he was re-arrested and on 17 April 1602, was brought to trial with
Robert Watkinson
(a young Yorkshire man who had been educated at Rome and ordained priest at Douai a month before) and
James Duckett
, a London bookseller. On 20 April he was executed at
Tyburn
with Watkinson and Francis Page, S.J. The last named was a convert, of a Middlesex family though born in Antwerp. He had been ordained at Douai in 1600 and received into the Society of Jesus while a prisoner in Newgate.
[2]
Tichborne was in the last stages of
consumption
when he was executed.
[2]
References
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- ^
A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
, Vol. 2, (Herbert Arthur Doubleday, William Page, eds.) A. Constable, limited, 1903, p. 84}
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c
Burton, Edwin. "Ven. Thomas Tichborne." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 8 October 2021
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain
.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "
Ven. Thomas Tichborne
".
Catholic Encyclopedia
. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
The entry cites:
- Richard Challoner
,
Memoirs of Missionary Priests
(London, 1741?2);
- Henry Foley
,
Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus
, I (London, 1877);
- Pollen,
Acts of the English Martyrs
(London, 1901);
- ____,
Unpublished documents relating to the English Martyrs
in Cath. Rec. Soc., V (London, 1908);
- Dasent,
Acts of the Privy Council, 1695-7
(London, 1902);