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Vincent, Thomas; Son of John Vincent, Fontmell, Dorset, edge tool maker, and his first wife ; b. ; ed. Blandford ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 May 1636, aged 18 ; Usher, Westminster School, in 1643 ; Under Master, Westminster School 1645- May 1656, when he retired owing to ill-health ; his diary for the first four months of 1655 survives in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Rawlinson D216 (J.B.Whitmore, “The diary of Thomas Vincent, undermaster of Westminster School, 1655”, in Bodleian Library Record 5, 1956, 308-11) ; “a most able, diligent school-master ; and one who grieved so much at the dullness and non-proficiency of any of his scholars, that, falling into a consumption, I have heard Mr.Henery (Philip Henry, qv) say of him, ‘that he even killed himself with false Latin” ; d. 1657 (will dated 11 May 1657, proved 13 Nov 1657).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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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.