{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Thomas Benwell''' (aka '''Thomas Benyngwell'''<ref name="carr">Carr, William, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hzBc2Ur_9YIC&q=Thomas+Benyngwell University College]'', Routledge, 1998. {{ISBN|978-0-415-18632-2}}. Chapter IV, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hzBc2Ur_9YIC&pg=PA53&vq=Thomas+Benyngwell The Fifteenth Century: Early Benefactors, Buildings, and Further Statutes]'' (pages 53–73).</ref>) was a Master of University College, Oxford, England.<ref name="history">Darwall-Smith, Robin, ''A History of University College, Oxford''. Oxford University Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-19-928429-0}}. Pages 54–67, 76, 94, 106.</ref>
Benwell was a mature commoner and Fellow at University College. He was also a tenant of a College property.<ref name="history" /> He became Master in 1428, a post he held until 1441. He was said to be an eminent preacher according to Thomas Caius, a later Master of the College.<ref name="carr" />
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