Thomas Holyoake (1616? – 10 June 1675) was an English royalist

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Life

He was the only son of

Francis Holyoake Francis Holyoake (1567 – 13 November 1653) was an English cleric and lexicographer. Life Holyoake was born at Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire. About 1582 he studied as a commoner at The Queen's College, Oxford, though it does not appear that he to ...

and Judith. Born at

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, he attended Coventry grammar school; entered

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, in

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term 1632 (

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1636;

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1639) (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 487, 508); and became

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to his college. He was chosen captain of a foot company. Consisting chiefly of undergraduates at

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at the beginning of the

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, in which capacity, doing good service to the royal cause, he was created D.D. by Charles I's express desire. After the surrender of Oxford, Holyoake obtains (in 1647) a licence from the university to practise medicine. He practised successfully in Warwickshire until the

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, when Thomas, lord Leigh, preferred him to the rectory of

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, near Warwick. He was installed also a prebendary of the collegiate church of

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. In 1674 Robert, lord Brooke, presented him to the donative of

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, where he died on 10 June 1675. He was buried near his father in the church of St. Mary at Warwick. By his wife Anne he had twelve children, including

Henry Holyoake Henry Holyoake (1657–1731) was a headmaster of Rugby School for more than forty years in the 17th and 18th centuries. Life Holyoake was probably born in Warwickshire in 1657, the son of Thomas Holyoake and Anne his wife, and the grandson of Fr ...

Works

Francis Holyoake, his father, had compiled a 'Dictionarie Etymologocall,’ which was annexed to 'Riders Dictionarie correct,’ 2 pts., London, 1617. The work was reissued in 1626, with additions by N. Gray, and in 1640,. But Holyoake had meanwhile contributed so much to the work that a fourth edition was published as almost his own, with the title 'Dictionarium Etymologicum Latinum,’ &c., 3 pts., London, 1633. The sixth edition is stated to be 'compositum et absolutum a Francisco de Sacra Quercu,’ 1648. Thomas made great additions to the work, but, dying before he could complete the edition, it was published by Thomas's son Charles, as 'A large Dictionary in three parts,’ London 1677–1676.

References

* The entry list these sources: **Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 346–7; **Frederick Leigh Colvile, ''Worthies of Warwickshire'', pp. 426, 427; **Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1660–1, pp. 133, 232, 350; **Brit. Mus. Cat. 1616 births 1675 deaths People from Warwickshire {{England-bio-stub