Background
He was the seventh son of Sir John Kingsmill of Fribock, Hampshire.
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Thomas Kingsmill
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Entering Magdalen College, Oxford, as a demy, he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1559, Master of Arts
Career
In 1564, and supplicated for the Bachelor of Divinity 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 as a deputy in 1579.
