But let him not be deprived of his just commendation, as one who was counted worthy of being joined with that ablest band of scholars and divines, which was ever united in a single literary undertaking. In 1571, he entered University College, Oxford and, in 1580, was elected Fellow of All Souls' College. He was a most eminent preacher. In virtue of this latter office, he acted as Registrar of the most noble Order of the Garter. Dr. Tomson took a great deal of pains in his part of translation of the Bible, which he did not long survive.
Man is like the flower, whose full bloom is the signal for decay to begin.
It is singular that Bishop Tomson never visited Gloucester, after his election to that see. In 1570, he read his ordinaries on the Almagest of Ptolemy, a collection of the geometrical and astronomical observations and problems of the ancients. By this exercise he very early became famous for his Greek and mathematical learning, in this latter science, he for some time read voluntary lectures. He then became tutor in Greek and mathematics to Queen Elizabeth, whose father, Henry VIII is said by Southey to have set the example of giving to daughters a learned education. It is to her highest honor, that when she had been more than twenty years upon the throne, she still kept up her habits of study, as appears by this appointment of Mr. Savile.