Thomas Lamplugh

History
History
Diaconal ordination
Ordained by	Robert Skinner, Bishop of Oxford
Date	17 March 1644
Place	Church of All Saints, Cuddesdon
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Robert Skinner, Bishop of Oxford
Date	1 June 1645
Place	Trinity College, Oxford chapel
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Henry Compton
Co-consecrators	Seth Ward
Date	12 November 1676
Place	Lambeth Palace

History
Ordination history of; Thomas Lamplugh
Ordained by
History
Diaconal ordination
Ordained by	Robert Skinner, Bishop of Oxford
Date	17 March 1644
Place	Church of All Saints, Cuddesdon
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Robert Skinner, Bishop of Oxford
Date	1 June 1645
Place	Trinity College, Oxford chapel
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Henry Compton
Co-consecrators	Seth Ward
Date	12 November 1676
Place	Lambeth Palace
	Source(s):

The Most Reverend

Thomas Lamplugh
The Most Reverend; Thomas Lamplugh
Archbishop of York
	Portrait by Godfrey Kneller
Church	Church of England
Province	Province of York
Diocese	Diocese of York
Elected	28 November 1688
In office	8 December 1688 (election confirmed)–1691 (died)
Predecessor	Vacant (last held by John Dolben)
Successor	John Sharp
Other post(s)	Archdeacon of Oxford (1663–1664 {deposed}); Archdeacon of London (27 May 1664–1676); Principal of St Alban Hall, Oxford (August 1664–1673); Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields (1 July 1670–1676); Dean of Rochester (3 March 1673 {instituted}–1688); Bishop of Exeter (3 October 1676 {elected}–1688)
Personal details
Born	1615; Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	5 May 1691 (aged 75–76); Bishopthorpe, Yorkshire, England
Buried	York Minster
Denomination	Anglican
Residence	Bishopthorpe Palace (at death)
Parents	Christopher Lamplugh & Anne Lamplugh (née Roper)
Spouse	Katherine (née Davenant; m. 1663; she d. 1671)
Children	5 children
Education	St Bees School
Alma mater	The Queen's College, Oxford

Thomas Lamplugh (1615 – 5 May 1691) was an English churchman who became Archbishop of York.

Life

He was the son of Christopher Lamplugh of Thwing, Yorkshire, and his wife Anne, daughter and coheir of Thomas Roper of Octon in the East Riding of Yorkshire whom he married on 23 November 1607 at Ruston Parva, East Riding of Yorkshire. Many sources incorrectly cite his father as Thomas, an MP for Cumberland, whose family had been seated at Dovenby in that county for a number of generations. There is an interpolation in the parish register of Lamplugh, Cumbria which has his baptism taking place on 13 June 1615.

Lamplugh was educated at St Bees School and The Queen's College, Oxford.

He was Dean of Rochester from 1673, and, from 1676, Bishop of Exeter. While in Exeter, he retained the Rochester deanery in commendam until his translation to York in 1688.

On receiving the news of the arrival of William of Orange at Brixham in Torbay, Bishop Lamplugh delivered a public address, in which he exhorted the people of his diocese to remain faithful to King James II. He fled to London, together with Dr. Annesley, the Dean. As a reward for Lamplugh's loyalty, James procured him the Archbishopric of York, which had been kept vacant for two years. He was confirmed in his new see before William's arrival in London, but his Jacobitism was of no very profound character and did not prevent him from assisting at William's coronation. He died at Bishopthorpe on 5 May 1691, and was buried in York Minster on 8 May 1691.^[4]

John Bowes Morrell (York Monuments p. 38) states that Lamplugh's monument in York Minster shows him "standing, appropriately grasping the pastoral staff that he finally secured by making his views agree with those in power as each change took place – he was a veritable Vicar of Bray. Drake quotes the French proverb: "To lie like an epitaph", and it might well be applied to the one on this monument, which reads: "At length, though he had solicitously declined that dignity, he was promoted to this metropolitan see ... "

Family

Lamplugh married Katherine Davenant on 25 November 1663 in Gillingham, Dorset and had five children. His surviving son was Thomas Davenant Lamplugh, D.D. ^[5]

Gallery

The memorial to Lamplugh in the south choir aisle at York Minster
Katherine Lamplugh née Davenant

Notes

^ "Lamplugh, Thomas (at Rochester Cathedral)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. CCEd Appointment ID 13960. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
^ "Subscription Evidence Record, ID 48676".
^ "Subscription Evidence Record, ID 48757".
^ Handley 2004.
^ Venables 1892.

References

Handley, Stuart. "Lamplugh, Thomas (bap. 1615, d. 1691)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15956. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
A R Jabez-Smith, "An Interpolation in a Lamplugh Parish Register", Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Volume LXI, 1961
Venables, Edmund (1892). "Lamplugh, Thomas" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Anthony Sparrow	Bishop of Exeter 1676–1688	Succeeded by Sir Jonathan Trelawny
Vacant Title last held by John Dolben	Archbishop of York 1688–1691	Succeeded by John Sharp

[1] "Lamplugh, Thomas (at Rochester Cathedral)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. CCEd Appointment ID 13960. Retrieved 21 October 2014.

[2] "Subscription Evidence Record, ID 48676".

[3] "Subscription Evidence Record, ID 48757".

[FOOTNOTEHandley2004-4] Handley 2004.

[FOOTNOTEVenables1892-5] Venables 1892.

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