# Thomas Tully > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Tully > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Tully.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tully > Source revision: 1323734974 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English Calvinist priest; (1620–1676)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{for|the fictional character|The Holdovers#Cast}} '''Thomas Tully''' (1620–1676) was an [Anglican](/source/Anglican) [cleric](/source/cleric). ==Life== The son of George Tully of [Carlisle, Cumbria](/source/Carlisle%2C_Cumbria), he was born in St Mary's parish there on 22 July 1620. He was educated in the parish free school under John Winter, and afterwards at [Barton Kirk](/source/Barton_Kirk) in [Westmorland](/source/Westmorland). He matriculated at [The Queen's College, Oxford](/source/The_Queen's_College%2C_Oxford), on 17 October 1634, graduating B.A. on 4 July 1639 and M.A. on 1 November 1642. He was elected a fellow of the college on 23 November 1643 and admitted 25 March 1644. When [Oxford](/source/Oxford) was occupied by the parliamentarians he retired and then obtained the mastership of the grammar school of [Tetbury](/source/Tetbury) in [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire). Returning to Oxford, he was admitted B.D. on 23 July 1657, and in the year following was appointed principal of [St. Edmund Hall](/source/St._Edmund_Hall) and rector of [Grittleton](/source/Grittleton) in [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire). After the [Restoration](/source/English_Restoration) he was created D.D. on 9 November 1660, and nominated one of the royal chaplains in ordinary, and in April 1675 was appointed [Dean of Ripon](/source/Dean_of_Ripon). According to Nicholas Tyacke, he was an important conforming Calvinist voice in the post-Restoration Church of England,Nicholas Tyacke, ''Aspects of English Protestantism, c. 1530-1700'' (2001), p. 291. even if his strictness, in the view of [Anthony Wood](/source/Anthony_Wood_(antiquary)), hindered his advancement. He died in the parsonage at Grittleton on 14 January 1676. ==Works== He was the author of: *''Logica Apodeictica, sive Tractatus brevis et dilucidus de demonstratione; cum dissertatiuncula Gassendi eodem pertinente'', Oxford, 1662, arguing against [Pierre Gassendi](/source/Pierre_Gassendi). *''A Letter written to a Friend in Wilts upon occasion of a late ridiculous Pamphlet, wherein was inserted a pretended Prophecie of Thomas Becket's'', London, 1666. *''Praecipuorum Theologiae Capitum Enchiridion Didacticum'', London, 1668; Oxford, 1683; Oxford, 1700. *''Justificatio Paulina sine Operibus'', Oxford, 1674. This was a criticism of the ''Harmonia Apostolica'' of [George Bull](/source/George_Bull). Tully also wrote several other controversial pamphlets against [Richard Baxter](/source/Richard_Baxter) and others. ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==References== *{{DNB|wstitle=Tully, Thomas}} ==Further reading== *[Andrew Pyle](/source/Andrew_Pyle_(philosopher)) (editor) (2000), ''Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers'' (2000), article on Tully pp. 827–8. ==External links== *{{prdl|49}} {{Deans of Ripon}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tully, Thomas}} Category:1620 births Category:1676 deaths Category:17th-century English Anglican priests Category:English Calvinist and Reformed theologians Category:17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Category:Deans of Ripon Category:Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford Category:Principals of St Edmund Hall, Oxford --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Thomas Tully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tully) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tully?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.