Background
Archer was born in Bury Saint Edmunds 12 August 1554, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship.
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Thomas Archer
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Education
Trinity College.
Career
He took his master"s degree in 1582, and in November 1584 became chaplain to his kinsman, Doctor John May, bishop of Carlisle. In 1588 he was public preacher to the university, and in May 1589 was inducted rector of Houghton Conquest and Houghton Gildable, in Bedfordshire. He served as chaplain in 1599 to Archbishop Whitgift, and in 1605 was made one of the king"s chaplains in ordinary.
In 1623 he made a vault for himself in the chancel of Houghton Conquest Church, and five years later added his epitaph in English and Latin.
