---
_id: cnp01137494
data:
  bioDates:
    - end: 1559
      lang: eng
      start: 1507
      text: c1507-1559
  extDataset:
    - code: CERE
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Provenance Information
      searchTerm: cnp01137494
      typeOfResource: prov
  external:
    - auth: CERL
      country: GB
      date: 20070913
      id: 304
  foundIn:
    - 'DNB 46,135'
  gender: b
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: 'born c1507, Eton educ., articled, by 1532 lower official of court of chancery, lived with Thomas Audley, friends with Thomas More, warden of the Mint 1534-6, clerk of the crown in Chancery 1537-44, then treasurer of the Augmentations, knighted 1537, privy councillor c1544, acquired much land at suppression of the monasteries, becoming one of richest commoners of his time, 1554-5 purchased buildings of Durham Coll. to establish Trinity College'
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Pope
        - firstname: Thomas
      usedBy:
        - EBOB
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  distinctFrom:
    - cnp00036756
    - cnp00058166
  history:
    - timestamp: 2008-04-09T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2011-06-25T11:19:32Z
  remark:
    - Authority record from 'Early Book Owners in Britain' database. Do NOT MERGE with any other EBOB authority record.
  status: n