# Thomas Darbyshire > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Darbyshire > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Darbyshire.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Darbyshire > Source revision: 1344140449 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|English priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} '''Thomas Darbyshire''' (1518–1604) was an English churchman and [Jesuit](/source/Jesuit). He was a nephew of [Edmund Bonner](/source/Edmund_Bonner) by a sister. He received his education at [Broadgates Hall, Oxford](/source/Broadgates_Hall%2C_Oxford), where he graduated B.A. in 1544, B.C.L. in 1553, and D.C.L. on 20 July 1556.[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp366-405 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Dabbe-Dirkin] His uncle collated him to the prebend of Totenhall in [St Paul's Cathedral](/source/St_Paul's_Cathedral) on 23 July 1543, to the rectory of [Hackney](/source/Hackney_(parish)) on 26 May 1554,{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22711|title=Hackney: The Parish Church | British History Online}} to the rectory of [Fulham](/source/Fulham) on 1 October 1558, to the [archdeaconry of Essex](/source/archdeaconry_of_Essex) on 22 October 1558, and to the rectory of [St. Magnus, near London Bridge](/source/St._Magnus%2C_near_London_Bridge), on 27 November 1558. He was also chancellor of the diocese of London, in which capacity he examined Protestants who were brought before Bishop Bonner about matters of faith.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/person12_283.html |title=Editorial commentary and additional information |access-date=18 September 2009 |archive-date=14 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614133847/http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/person12_283.html |url-status=dead }} On the accession of [Elizabeth I](/source/Elizabeth_I_of_England), he was a conspicuous Catholic, and was deprived of all his preferments. He remained in England, however, for some time, and was deputed to attend the [Council of Trent](/source/Council_of_Trent). He was sent in order to procure an opinion on the point, then controversial, whether the Catholic faithful might frequent the Protestant churches in order to avoid the penalties decreed against [recusant](/source/recusant)s. He brought back an answer to the effect that attendance at the heretical worship would be a great sin. It was at his prompting that the fathers of the Council passed the decree ''De non adeundis Haereticorum ecclesiis''. He afterwards suffered imprisonment in London, and eventually left England. He visited several parts of France and Flanders, and entered the Society of Jesus on 1 May 1563, at St. Andrew's Novitiate, Rome. He was sent first to [Monaco](/source/Monaco) and then to the [University of Dillingen](/source/University_of_Dillingen). Then the pope gave him a mission to Scotland, along with Father [Edmund Hay](/source/Edmund_Hay), to the apostolic nuncio [Vincentius Laurens](/source/Vincentius_Laurens) who had been consecrated bishop, and appointed his successor in the [see of Monte Regale](/source/see_of_Monte_Regale). The object of this mission is unclear but probably connected with affairs of [Mary, Queen of Scots](/source/Mary%2C_Queen_of_Scots). Subsequently, he was ordered to France, having been appointed master of novices at [Billom](/source/Billom). He became a professed father of the Society of Jesus in 1572. For some years he lectured in Latin to the members of the [Sodality of the Blessed Virgin](/source/Sodality_of_the_Blessed_Virgin). This was probably at Paris, where he was residing in 1575–6, and again in 1579 and in 1583. While in Paris, he was an important early influence on [Robert Southwell](/source/Robert_Southwell_(Jesuit)).{{Cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/214/0701.html|title = §1. Robert Southwell. VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21}}{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Southwell, Robert |volume=25 |pages=517–518}} Among his converts were [Henry Fitzsimon](/source/Henry_Fitzsimon) and [George Gilbert](/source/George_Gilbert_(Jesuit)).''Menology of the Society of Jesus. English-speaking assistancy: comprising the provinces of England, Ireland, Maryland and Missouri, together with the missions of Canada and New Orleans'' (1902), p. 167. He visited [William Allen](/source/William_Allen_(cardinal)) in the English college at [Rheims](/source/Rheims), who thought highly of him. He retired to [Pont-à-Mousson](/source/Pont-%C3%A0-Mousson) in [Lorraine](/source/Lorraine_(province)), where he died on 6 April 1604. Some of his letters, intercepted by the English government, were printed by [Henry Foley](/source/Henry_Foley_(historian)). ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==References== *{{DNB|wstitle=Darbyshire, Thomas}} {{Archdeacons of Essex}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Darbyshire, Thomas}} Category:1518 births Category:1604 deaths Category:Alumni of Broadgates Hall, Oxford Category:Archdeacons of Essex Category:Participants in the Council of Trent Category:16th-century English Jesuits Category:17th-century English Jesuits --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Thomas Darbyshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Darbyshire) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Darbyshire?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.