Thomas Oates (priest) explained

Thomas Oates DD (died 1623) was a Canon of Windsor from 1621 to 1623.^[1]

Career

He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he graduated BA in 1596, MA in 1599, BD in 1609 and DD in 1618.

He was appointed:

• Domestic Chaplain to William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke 1608
• Chaplain to James I of England
• Prebendary of Chamberlainwood in St Paul's 1618 - 1623
• Rector of Stoke Hamond, Buckinghamshire
• Rector of Great Cressingham, Norfolk 1621

He was appointed to the twelfth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1621, and held the stall until 1623.

Notes and References

1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle