Thomas Ram Explained

Thomas Ram
Birth Date:	1564
Death Place:	Dublin
Years Active:	1599 - 1634
Occupation:	Priest
Education:	Eton College
Alma Mater:	King's College, Cambridge
Religion:	Christian
Church:	Anglican

Thomas Ram (1564 – 1634) was an Anglican priest in the early seventeenth century.^[1]

Born at Windsor, he was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.^[2] He was appointed Chaplain to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1599;^[3] Vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in 1600;^[4] Dean of Cork in 1601;^[5] Dean of Ferns in 1604;^[6] and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in 1605.^[7]

He died in Dublin on 24 November 1634.

References

1. Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996, 0713642556
2. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]
3. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p83 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p238 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
6. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p349 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p335 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878