John Thornborough
Thornborough was born in Salisbury, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford.In a long ecclesiastical career, he was employed as a chaplain by the Earl of Pembroke, and Queen Elizabeth.[1] He was appointed Clerk of the Closet in 1588, serving Queen Elizabeth I in that capacity until the end of her reign in 1603.[2] He also shielded the future biographer Samuel Clarke (1599–1683).[5] Robert Fludd dedicated Anatomiae Amphitheatrum (1623) to Thornborough.
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