Thomas Kingsmill (politician)
Thomas Kingsmill may refer to: * Thomas Kingsmill (professor) (fl. 1565), English academic, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1570 * Thomas Kingsmill (Hawkhurst Gang) Thomas Kingsmill (c1720–26 April 1749) was one of the leaders of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers that operated, from its base in Kent, along the South Coast of England from 1735 until 1749. One of the more infamous gangs of the ea ...

Thomas Kingsmill (professor)
Thomas Kingsmill (fl. 1565) was an English academic, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1570. Life He was the seventh son of Sir John Kingsmill of Fribock, Hampshire. Entering Magdalen College, Oxford, as a demy, he graduated B.A. in 1559, M.A. in 1564, and supplicated for the B.D. degree in 1572. He was probationer fellow from 1559 to 1568, natural philosophy lecturer in 1563, Hebrew lecturer in 1565, and junior dean of arts in 1567. On 15 December 1565, he was appointed public orator and orated for the visit of Elizabeth I of England to Oxford in 1566, when he gave a very long historical speech. On 2 November 1570, he was appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew. He suffered from mental illness for a time, and was obliged to take on Richard Hooker Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian.The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F. L. Cross (Editor), E. A. Livingstone (Edit ...
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