Foster: s. Thomas, of London, pleb. Magdalen Hall, matric. 10 Dec., 1630, aged 18; B.C.L. from St. Edmund Hall 27 Nov., 1632 (chaplain or petty canon of Christ Church), D.C.L. 2 Aug., 1660, domestic chaplain to Lord Littleton 1645 (rector of St. Mary Woolchurch JuneDec., 1641), rector of Ewhurst, Sussex, 1641, dean of St. Patrick's 1660-6, chancellor of Dromore 1661, and treasurer of Christ Church, Dublin, 1661, bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe, 1664-7, and of Lincoln 1667, until his death 23 April, 1675. See Ath. iv. 850; Cotton's Fasti Ecc. Hib. ii. 100; Lansdowne MS. 986, f. 188; & D.N.B.