Foster: s. Thomas, of Lutterworth, co. Leicester, gent. Oriel Coll., matric. 25 Jan., 1632-3, aged 21; B.A. 31 Jan., 1632-3, fellow 1634 (sometime of Sidney Sussex Coll., Cambridge), M.A. 26 May, 1638, proctor 1646, vicar of St. Mary's Oxford 1649. See Burrows, 536.
For his early career, see G.C. Richards and C.L. Shadwell, 'The Provosts and Fellows of Oriel College Oxford' (Oxford, 1922), pp. 101-2.