{{Short description|Irish Anglican priest}} {{for|his son|Thomas Ram (junior)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Portal|Christianity}} {{Infobox clergy | child = | honorific_prefix = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | name = Thomas Ram | native_name = | native_name_lang = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | ethnicity = | citizenship = | pronunciation = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 1564 | birth_place = | burial_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1634|11|24|1564|df=y}} | death_place = Dublin | death_cause = <!--should only be included when the cause of death has significance for the subject's notability--> | other_names = | years_active = 1599–1634 | occupation = Priest | education = Eton College | alma_mater = King's College, Cambridge | known_for = | spouse = <!-- Use article title or common name --> | partner = <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | parents = <!-- overrides mother and father parameters --> | children = | relatives = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | footnotes = | signature = | signature_alt = | nocat_wdimage = | religion = Christian | church = Anglican | ordained = | laicised = | writings = | congregations = | offices_held = | title = | module = }}

'''Thomas Ram''' (1564 – 1634) was an Anglican priest in the early seventeenth century.<ref>''Handbook of British Chronology'' By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 {{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}, 0713642556</ref>

Born at Windsor, he was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.<ref>Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/ John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press [https://archive.org/stream/p1alumnicantabri03univuoft#page/416/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii Kaile – Ryves (1924) p416 ]</ref> He was appointed Chaplain to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1599;<ref>"A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}}</ref> Vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in 1600;<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p83 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878</ref> Dean of Cork in 1601;<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p238 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878</ref> Dean of Ferns in 1604;<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p349 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878</ref> and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in 1605.<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p335 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878</ref>

He died in Dublin on 24 November 1634.<ref>{{DNB|prescript=|wstitle=Ram, Thomas}}</ref>

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