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Around his neck can be seen the insignia of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">Order of the Garter</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Diocese</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Salisbury" title="Diocese of Salisbury">Diocese of Salisbury</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">In office</th><td class="infobox-data">1761–1766 (d.)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Gilbert_(archbishop_of_York)" title="John Gilbert (archbishop of York)">John Gilbert</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Hume_(bishop)" title="John Hume (bishop)">John Hume</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other post(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lincoln" title="Bishop of Lincoln">Bishop of Lincoln</a> <span class="nowrap">(1744–1761)</span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Order_of_the_Garter" title="Chancellor of the Order of the Garter">Chancellor of the Order of the Garter</a> <span class="nowrap">(1761–1766)</span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Orders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecration</th><td class="infobox-data">1 April 1744</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1691-06-23</span>)</span>23 June 1691<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">20 July 1766<span style="display:none">(1766-07-20)</span> (aged 75)<br /><a href="/wiki/Salisbury" title="Salisbury">Salisbury</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/St_Catharine%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St Catharine's College, Cambridge">St Catharine's College, Cambridge </a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wall_monument_in_Salisbury_Cathedral.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Wall_monument_in_Salisbury_Cathedral.jpg/220px-Wall_monument_in_Salisbury_Cathedral.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Wall_monument_in_Salisbury_Cathedral.jpg/330px-Wall_monument_in_Salisbury_Cathedral.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Wall_monument_in_Salisbury_Cathedral.jpg/440px-Wall_monument_in_Salisbury_Cathedral.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Monument to Bishop John Thomas in Salisbury Cathedral</figcaption></figure> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">English bishop</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the 18th-century Bishop of Peterborough, Salisbury and Winchester, see <a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Winchester)" title="John Thomas (bishop of Winchester)">John Thomas (bishop of Winchester)</a>. For the 18th-century Bishop of Rochester, see <a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Rochester)" title="John Thomas (bishop of Rochester)">John Thomas (bishop of Rochester)</a>. For other people named John Thomas, see <a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="John Thomas (disambiguation)">John Thomas (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p> <b>John Thomas</b> (1691–1766) was an English <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lincoln" title="Bishop of Lincoln">Bishop of Lincoln</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Salisbury" title="Bishop of Salisbury">Bishop of Salisbury</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Salisbury)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born on 23 June 1691, he was the son of a <a href="/wiki/Drayman" title="Drayman">drayman</a> in Nicholson's brewery in the parish of <a href="/wiki/All_Hallows_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="All Hallows the Great">All Hallows the Great</a> in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a>, and was sent to the parish school. He was admitted to <a href="/wiki/Merchant_Taylors%27_School,_Northwood" title="Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood">Merchant Taylors' School</a> on 11 March 1703. He graduated B.A. in 1713 and M.A. in 1717 from <a href="/wiki/Catharine_Hall,_Cambridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Catharine Hall, Cambridge">Catharine Hall, Cambridge</a>, was made D.D. in 1728, and incorporated at Oxford on 11 July of the same year.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He became chaplain of the English factory at Hamburg, where he was highly popular with the merchants, published a paper in German called the <i>Patriot</i> in imitation of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i>, and attracted the notice of George II, who offered him preferment in England, if his ministers would leave him any patronage to bestow. In 1736 he was presented to the rectory of <a href="/wiki/St_Vedast_Foster_Lane" title="St Vedast Foster Lane">St Vedast Foster Lane</a>; he accompanied the king to Hanover at his personal request. His knowledge of German had commended him to the king, who liked him, and refused to quarrel with him for having dined at Cliefden with <a href="/wiki/Frederick,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Frederick, Prince of Wales">Frederick, Prince of Wales</a>. He succeeded Francis Lockyer as <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Peterborough" title="Dean of Peterborough">dean of Peterborough</a> in 1740, in spite of the opposition of the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Newcastle" title="Duke of Newcastle">Duke of Newcastle</a>. In 1743 he was nominated to the <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_St_Asaph" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishopric of St Asaph">bishopric of St Asaph</a>, but was immediately transferred to Lincoln, to which he was consecrated at <a href="/wiki/Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a> on 1 April 1744. </p><p>He was translated to Salisbury in November 1761 (where he was <i>ex officio</i> the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Order_of_the_Garter" title="Chancellor of the Order of the Garter">Chancellor of the Order of the Garter</a>), died there on 20 July 1766, and was buried in <a href="/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral" title="Salisbury Cathedral">Salisbury Cathedral</a>. His library was sold in 1767. He left one daughter, married to John Taylor, chancellor of Salisbury. Of his four wives, the first was a niece of Bishop Sherlock. The famous wedding-ring 'posy,' 'If I survive I'll make them five,' is attributed to him. Thomas was the author of sermons published between 1739 and 1756. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Salisbury)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFACADTHMS709J" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=THMS709J&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50">"Thomas, John (THMS709J)"</a>. <i>A Cambridge Alumni Database</i>. 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navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cuthwine_of_Leicester" title="Cuthwine of Leicester">Cuthwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfrid" title="Wilfrid">Wilfrid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Headda" title="Headda">Headda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aldwine" title="Aldwine">Aldwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torhthelm" title="Torhthelm">Torhthelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadbeorht_of_Leicester" title="Eadbeorht of Leicester">Eadbeorht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unwona" title="Unwona">Unwona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wernbeorht" title="Wernbeorht">Wernbeorht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%A6thhun" title="Hræthhun">Hræthhun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ealdred_of_Leicester" title="Ealdred of Leicester">Ealdred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceobred" title="Ceobred">Ceobred</a></li> <li><i>see removed to Dorchester</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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title="Ælfhelm of Dorchester">Ælfhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadnoth_the_Younger" title="Eadnoth the Younger">Eadnoth</a> <i>(I)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelric_(bishop_of_Dorchester)" title="Æthelric (bishop of Dorchester)">Æthelric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadnoth_II" title="Eadnoth II">Eadnoth</a> <i>(II)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulfus_Normanus" title="Ulfus Normanus">Ulfus Normanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfwig" title="Wulfwig">Wulfwig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Remigius_de_F%C3%A9camp" title="Remigius de Fécamp">Remigius de Fécamp</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">High Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Remigius de Fécamp</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloet" title="Robert Bloet">Robert Bloet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Lincoln" title="Alexander of Lincoln">Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Chesney" title="Robert de Chesney">Robert de Chesney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_(archbishop_of_York)" title="Geoffrey (archbishop of York)">Geoffrey Plantagenet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_de_Coutances" title="Walter de Coutances">Walter de Coutances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Lincoln" title="Hugh of Lincoln">Hugh of Avalon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Blois_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="William de Blois (bishop of Lincoln)">William de Blois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Wells" title="Hugh of Wells">Hugh of Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste" title="Robert Grosseteste">Robert Grosseteste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_of_Lexington" title="Henry of Lexington">Henry of Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_of_Gravesend" title="Richard of Gravesend">Richard of Gravesend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Sutton_(bishop)" title="Oliver Sutton (bishop)">Oliver Sutton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dalderby" title="John Dalderby">John Dalderby</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Antony_Bek_(bishop_of_Norwich)" title="Antony Bek (bishop of Norwich)">Anthony Bek</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Burghersh" title="Henry Burghersh">Henry Burghersh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bek_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="Thomas Bek (bishop of Lincoln)">Thomas Bek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gynwell" title="John Gynwell">John Gynwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bokyngham" title="John Bokyngham">John Bokyngham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Beaufort" title="Henry Beaufort">Henry Beaufort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Repyngdon" title="Philip Repyngdon">Philip Repyngdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Fleming_(bishop)" title="Richard Fleming (bishop)">Richard Fleming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grey_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="William Grey (bishop of Lincoln)">William Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Alnwick" title="William Alnwick">William Alnwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmaduke_Lumley" title="Marmaduke Lumley">Marmaduke Lumley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chadworth" title="John Chadworth">John Chadworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Rotherham" title="Thomas Rotherham">Thomas Rotherham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell_(bishop)" title="John Russell (bishop)">John Russell</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Smyth" title="William Smyth">William Smyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a></li> <li><a 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Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tenison" title="Thomas Tenison">Thomas Tenison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Gardiner_(bishop)" title="James Gardiner (bishop)">James Gardiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wake" title="William Wake">William Wake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Gibson" title="Edmund Gibson">Edmund Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Reynolds_(bishop)" title="Richard Reynolds (bishop)">Richard Reynolds</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">John Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Green_(bishop)" title="John Green (bishop)">John Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Thurlow_(bishop)" title="Thomas Thurlow (bishop)">Thomas Thurlow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Pretyman_Tomline" title="George Pretyman Tomline">George Pretyman</a> (later Pretyman Tomline)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pelham_(bishop)" title="George Pelham (bishop)">George Pelham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kaye_(bishop)" title="John Kaye (bishop)">John Kaye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jackson_(bishop)" title="John Jackson (bishop)">John Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Wordsworth" title="Christopher Wordsworth">Christopher Wordsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_King_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="Edward King (bishop of Lincoln)">Edward King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hicks_(bishop)" title="Edward Hicks (bishop)">Edward Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Swayne" title="William Swayne">William Swayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nugent_Hicks" title="Nugent Hicks">Nugent Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aylmer_Skelton" title="Aylmer Skelton">Aylmer Skelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Owen" title="Leslie Owen">Leslie Owen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Harland" title="Maurice Harland">Maurice Harland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Riches" title="Kenneth Riches">Kenneth Riches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Phipps_(bishop)" title="Simon Phipps (bishop)">Simon Phipps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hardy_(bishop)" title="Bob Hardy (bishop)">Bob Hardy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Saxbee" title="John Saxbee">John Saxbee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lowson" title="Christopher Lowson">Christopher Lowson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Conway" title="Stephen Conway">Stephen Conway</a>, Bishop of Ely (acting)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/David_Court_(bishop)" title="David Court (bishop)">David Court</a> (acting)</i></li> <li>Stephen Conway</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" 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title="Wigberht">Wigberht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eahlstan" title="Eahlstan">Eahlstan</a></li> <li>St <a href="/wiki/Heahmund" title="Heahmund">Heahmund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelheah" title="Æthelheah">Æthelheah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfsige_of_Sherborne" title="Wulfsige of Sherborne">Wulfsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asser" title="Asser">Asser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelweard_(bishop_of_Sherborne)" title="Æthelweard (bishop of Sherborne)">Æthelweard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W%C3%A6rstan" title="Wærstan">Wærstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelbald_(bishop)" title="Æthelbald (bishop)">Æthelbald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigehelm" title="Sigehelm">Sigehelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_of_Sherborne" title="Alfred of Sherborne">Alfred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfsige_II" title="Wulfsige II">Wulfsige II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwold_I_(bishop_of_Sherborne)" title="Ælfwold I (bishop of Sherborne)">Ælfwold I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelsige_I" title="Æthelsige I">Æthelsige I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfsige_III" title="Wulfsige III">Wulfsige III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelric_(bishop_of_Sherborne)" title="Æthelric (bishop of Sherborne)">Æthelric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelsige_II" title="Æthelsige II">Æthelsige II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brithwine_I" title="Brithwine I">Brithwine I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfm%C3%A6r_(bishop_of_Sherborne)" title="Ælfmær (bishop of Sherborne)">Ælfmær</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brithwine_II" title="Brithwine II">Brithwine II</a></li> <li>St <a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwold_II_(bishop_of_Sherborne)" title="Ælfwold II (bishop of Sherborne)">Ælfwold II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="Herman (bishop of Salisbury)">Herman</a></li> <li><i>see united with <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Ramsbury_(ancient)" title="Bishop of Ramsbury (ancient)">Ramsbury</a> and removed to Old Sarum</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">see at <a href="/wiki/Old_Sarum" title="Old Sarum">Old Sarum</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>united from </i>Sherborne<i> & <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Ramsbury_(ancient)" title="Bishop of Ramsbury (ancient)">Ramsbury</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="Herman (bishop of Salisbury)">Herman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Osmund" title="Saint Osmund">Saint Osmund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Salisbury" title="Roger of Salisbury">Roger</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_of_Sully_(died_1189)" title="Henry of Sully (died 1189)">Henry of Sully</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Philip_de_Harcourt" title="Philip de Harcourt">Philip de Harcourt</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josceline_de_Bohon" title="Josceline de Bohon">Josceline de Bohon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_Walter" title="Hubert Walter">Hubert Walter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Poore" title="Herbert Poore">Herbert Poore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Poore" title="Richard Poore">Richard Poore</a></li> <li><i>see removed to <a href="/wiki/Salisbury#New_Sarum" title="Salisbury">New Sarum</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Richard Poore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Bingham" title="Robert de Bingham">Robert de Bingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_York" title="William de York">William de York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giles_of_Bridport" title="Giles of Bridport">Giles of Bridport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_de_la_Wyle" title="Walter de la Wyle">Walter de la Wyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wickhampton" title="Robert Wickhampton">Robert Wickhampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scammel" title="Walter Scammel">Walter Scammel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Brandeston" title="Henry Brandeston">Henry Brandeston</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_de_Awkeburne" title="Lawrence de Awkeburne">Lawrence de Awkeburne</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_la_Corner" title="William de la Corner">William de la Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Longespee" title="Nicholas Longespee">Nicholas Longespee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_of_Ghent" title="Simon of Ghent">Simon of Ghent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Martival" title="Roger Martival">Roger Martival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wyvil" title="Robert Wyvil">Robert Wyvil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Ergham" title="Ralph Ergham">Ralph Ergham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Waltham" title="John Waltham">John Waltham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Mitford" title="Richard Mitford">Richard Mitford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bubwith" title="Nicholas Bubwith">Nicholas Bubwith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hallam" title="Robert Hallam">Robert Hallam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chandler_(bishop)" title="John Chandler (bishop)">John Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Neville_(bishop)" title="Robert Neville (bishop)">Robert Neville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ayscough" title="William Ayscough">William Ayscough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Beauchamp_(bishop)" title="Richard Beauchamp (bishop)">Richard Beauchamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Woodville" title="Lionel Woodville">Lionel Woodville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Langton" title="Thomas Langton">Thomas Langton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Blyth_(bishop)" title="John Blyth (bishop)">John Blyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Deane_(archbishop_of_Canterbury)" title="Henry Deane (archbishop of Canterbury)">Henry Deane</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Audley" title="Edmund Audley">Edmund Audley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_Campeggio" title="Lorenzo Campeggio">Lorenzo Campeggio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Shaxton" title="Nicholas Shaxton">Nicholas Shaxton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Capon" title="John Capon">John Capon</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gasparo_Contarini" title="Gasparo Contarini">Gasparo Contarini</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/William_Petow" title="William Petow">William Petow</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Francis_Mallet" title="Francis Mallet">Francis Mallet</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jewel" title="John Jewel">John Jewel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Gheast" title="Edmund Gheast">Edmund Gheast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Piers" title="John Piers">John Piers</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/John_Hume_(bishop)" title="John Hume (bishop)">John Hume</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shute_Barrington" title="Shute Barrington">Shute Barrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Douglas_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)">John Douglas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Fisher_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="John Fisher (bishop of Salisbury)">John Fisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Burgess_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="Thomas Burgess (bishop of Salisbury)">Thomas Burgess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Denison_(bishop)" title="Edward Denison (bishop)">Edward Denison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Kerr_Hamilton" title="Walter Kerr Hamilton">Walter Kerr Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Moberly" title="George Moberly">George Moberly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wordsworth" title="John Wordsworth">John Wordsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Ridgeway" title="Frederick Ridgeway">Frederick Ridgeway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Clair_Donaldson" title="St Clair Donaldson">St Clair Donaldson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neville_Lovett" title="Neville Lovett">Neville Lovett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Lunt" title="Geoffrey Lunt">Geoffrey Lunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Anderson_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="William Anderson (bishop of Salisbury)">William Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Fison" title="Joe Fison">Joe Fison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Reindorp" title="George Reindorp">George Reindorp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Baker_(bishop)" title="John Baker (bishop)">John Baker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Stancliffe" title="David Stancliffe">David Stancliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Holtam" title="Nick Holtam">Nick Holtam</a></li> 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Francis Walsingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amias_Paulet" title="Amias Paulet">Sir Amias Paulet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wolley_(MP)" title="John Wolley (MP)">Sir John Wolley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Dyer" title="Edward Dyer">Sir Edward Dyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Herbert_(Secretary_of_State)" title="John Herbert (Secretary of State)">Sir John Herbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_More" title="George More">Sir George More</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Crane" title="Francis Crane">Sir Francis Crane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Roe" title="Thomas Roe">Sir Thomas Roe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Palmer_(1585%E2%80%931658)" title="James Palmer (1585–1658)">Sir James Palmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_de_Vic" title="Henry de Vic">Sir Henry de Vic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bishops of Salisbury (1671–1837)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seth_Ward_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury)">Seth Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Burnet" title="Gilbert Burnet">Gilbert Burnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Talbot_(bishop)" title="William Talbot (bishop)">William Talbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Willis_(bishop)" title="Richard Willis (bishop)">Richard Willis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Hoadly" title="Benjamin Hoadly">Benjamin Hoadly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sherlock" title="Thomas Sherlock">Thomas Sherlock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gilbert_(archbishop_of_York)" title="John Gilbert (archbishop of York)">John Gilbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Winchester)" title="John Thomas (bishop of Winchester)">John Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hay_Drummond" title="Robert Hay Drummond">Robert Hay Drummond</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink 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