Thomas Sampson was said to have been born at Playford, Suffolk, but possibly came from Binfield in Berkshire.
14 Facts About Thomas Sampson
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Thomas Sampson married a niece of Hugh Latimer; Latimer and Sampson influenced the conversion of John Bradford, a Marian Protestant martyr.
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Thomas Sampson has been described as perhaps the most eloquent of all the new generation of evangelical preachers.
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Thomas Sampson was strongly anti-Catholic throughout the rest of his life.
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Thomas Sampson communicated to his parishioners his distaste for Catholic prayers for the dead.
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Thomas Sampson did not return immediately upon Elizabeth's accession, waiting until 1560.
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Thomas Sampson attempted to give the debate a broader Protestant dimension, involving correspondence with Heinrich Bullinger.
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Thomas Sampson was ultimately unsuccessful, since Bullinger sided with Parker.
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The Court of High Commission ruled against Thomas Sampson, after summoning him in 1565.
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Thomas Sampson was deprived of his position as Dean, despite being thought a very effective administrator.
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Thomas Sampson was prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1570.
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Thomas Sampson was then appointed Master of the Hospital of William de Wygston, at Leicester.
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Thomas Sampson prepared a summary of Martin Bucer's De Regno Christi, which he passed to Lord Burghley during the 1570s.
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Thomas Sampson died in Leicester in 1589, and was buried in St Ursula's Chapel, attached to the Hospital, where his sons erected a memorial to him.