Foster: (2s. Thomas of Steeple Claydon),Bucks, equitis. Magdalen Coll., matric. 22 Feb., 1604-5, aged 14; B.A. 8 July, 1607, M.A. 15 May, 1610, (incorp. at Cambridge 1616), fellow All Souls' Coll. 1611, B.D. 30 May, 1617, (incorp. at Cambridge 1618), D.D. 6 Nov., 1619, licenced to preach 4 Nov., 1622, principal of St. Alban Hall 1624-5, chaplain in ordinary to King James and to Charles I., snatched away by the plague that was then in Oxon 25 July, 1625. See Ath., ii. 377.