Thomas Herne

Thomas Herne (died 1722) was an English academic and lay participant in religious controversy.

Life

A native of Suffolk, he was admitted as a pensioner at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[1] on 29 October 1711. In the following year he was elected to a scholarship, graduated B.A. in 1715, and was incorporated at Oxford 21 February 1716. Not long afterwards the Duchess of Bedford made him tutor to her sons Wriothesley and John, later successively the third and fourth Dukes of Bedford. In 1716 Herne was elected to a vacant fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, and on 11 October 1718 proceeded M.A. He died a layman and unmarried, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, in 1722.

Works

Herne took part in the Bangorian controversy, and published under the pseudonym ‘Phileleutherus Cantabrigiensis:’

He also wrote:

Herne issued in 1719 an account of all the major pamphlets issued in the Bangorian controversy to the end of 1718; a continuation of this account to the end of 1719, London, 1720; and a reissue of the whole, London, 1720.

References

  1. "Herne, Thomas (HN711T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Herne, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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