Foster: Polwhele, Thomas, s. John, of Treworgan, Cornwall, gent. Exeter Coll, matric. 17 Dec 1662, aged 17; fellow 1664-78, BA 1667, MA 1671, vicar of Newlyn East, Cornwall, 1677, until deprived 1690, as a Jacobite; brother of John 1658. See Boase, 76; Foster's Index Eccl.