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Thomas Harpur (academic)

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Thomas Harpur (died 1508) was an English Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[1]

Harpur was a Doctor of Divinity.[2] He was a Fellow and then Warden of Merton College, Oxford, during 1507–8. In 1498, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. He is also vicar of St Nicholas, Bristol, and died there in 1508.[3] A double-brass with an inscription was installed to his and Ralph Hamsterley's memory in Merton College Chapel. Ralph Hamsterley was a Fellow of Merton College and later Master of University College, Oxford.

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  1. ^ "Appendix 6: Vice-Chancellors of the University". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. 1988. pp. 523–526.
  2. ^ Wood, Anthony (1790). "Fasti Oxonienses". The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford. pp. 71, 73–75 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Brodrick, George C. (1885). Memorials of Merton College, with Biographical Notices of the Wardens and Fellows. Oxford Historical Society, Clarendon Press.

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