Background
Born at Ubley, Somerset, he was the son of William Thomas (1593–1667), rector of Ubley.
Born at Ubley, Somerset, he was the son of William Thomas (1593–1667), rector of Ubley.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts from Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1649, and was incorporated at Oxford on 20 August 1651. He became a Fellow of Street John"s College, Oxford and graduated Master of Arts
On 17 December 1651, being incorporated at Cambridge in 1663. In 1660 he was deprived of his fellowship by the royal commissioners, and was soon after made a chaplain or petty canon of Christ Church, Oxford where in 1672 he became a chantor. He was also vicar of Saint Thomas"s at Oxford, and afterwards curate of Holywell.
In 1681 he became vicar of Chard in Somerset, and on 3 August of the same year was appointed to the prebend of Compton Bishop in the see of Bath and Wells.
On the accession of William and Mary, Thomas was one of those who refused to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and he was in consequence deprived of his prebend in 1691, and in the following year of the vicarage of Chard. He died at Chard on 4 November 1693, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church.