Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567 (Personal Name)

His Prayers and other pieces of Thomas Becon, 1844.

His The sicke mans salue, 1600: t.p. (Thomas Beacon)

UnM/UMI files (hdg.: Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567; usage: Thomas Becon, T. Becon; Thomas Beacon; T. Beacon; Theodore Basille; T. Basille)

DNB (hdg.: Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567; also wrote under the name, Theodore Basille)

Oxford English Dictionary online, viewed 18 Jan. 2016 (Becon, Thomas (1512/13-1567), theologian and Church of England clergyman; born in Norfolk, near Thetford, in 1512 or 1513; Becon entered Cambridge in 1527; after graduating in 1531, Becon began his lifelong career as a teacher at St John's College, Rushworth, Norfolk in Jul. 1532; on 12 Apr. 1533 he was ordained priest and became a chantrist in the parish of St Lawrence, Ipswich; in 1547, he became personal chaplain to Protector Somerset and Archbishop Cranmer; in addition to his chaplaincies, Becon received the London rectory of St Stephen Walbrook in 1548; in Aug. 1553, Becon was stripped of his offices and imprisoned in the Tower as a seditious preacher; released in Mar. 1554, he exiled to Strasbourg; he moved to Frankfurt in late 1554; by summer 1556 he had moved to Marburg and he lectured at Marburg University; after Queen Mary's death Becon returned to England and was presented to the canonry and prebendary of the fourth stall at Canterbury Cathedral on 17 Sep. 1559; he became rector of Buckland, Hertfordshire, on 21 Oct. 1560; vicar of Christ Church, Newgate, on 3 Mar. 1561; vicar of Sturry, near Canterbury, in Apr. 1562 and rector of St Dionis Backchurch, in London, in Aug. 1563; he died on 30 Jun. 1567 and was probably buried in Canterbury)