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Triplett, Thomas; Son of Robert Triplett, City of London, stationer, and Margery Cartwright ; bapt.St.Nicholas Cole Abbey, City of London 6 Apr 1602 ; educ. St.Paul’s Sch. and Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Mar 1620/1, aged 18 ; BA 1622 ; MA 1625 ; DD 1661 ; ordained ; Vicar of Woodhorn, Northumberland 1630 ; Rector of Whitburn, co.Durham 1631 ; Vicar of Washington, co.Durham 10 Apr 1640 – ejected 10 Sep 1644, reinstated 1660 -2 ; Prebendary of York from 2 Aug 1641 ; Prebendary of Salisbury Oct 1645 (but not installed until 17 Sep 1660) – resignation Mar 1662 ; Prebendary of Durham 20 Mar 1648/9 (but not installed until 2 Nov 1660) – resignation Mar 1662 ; Prebendary of Westminster from 1662, Sub-Dean ; d. unm. 18 Jul 1670. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
By an indenture dated 21 Dec 1668 he granted certain lands at Haughley, Suffolk, to trustees, upon trust, after the death of his sister Katherine Warne and her children, to pay out of the income £20 annually to the Dean, Sub-Dean and two senior Prebendaries of Westminster “in trust for foure of the worthy Schollers of the Free Schoole of Westminster that want means to subsist att the University”. The benefaction subsequently provided two or more exhibitions annually, tenable for three years at any college at Oxford or Cambridge, of an annual value not exceeding £50, in addition to gratuities awarded on their leaving to such boys as the trustees considered deserving.
The endowment is currently held in the School’s Rev.Dr.Triplett’s Foundation, under a scheme of 21 Mar 1857, as varied by schemes of 14 Mar 1873, 10 Aug 1910, 19 Sep 1954, 16 Apr 1959 and 8 Nov 1959.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.