page_title: Thomas Barlow (bishop)
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Barlow (bishop)
caption_attribution_description: English: 'The Bishop of Buckden' Memorial in St.Mary's chancel to the controversial Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln 1675-1691. Unquestionably of a brilliant mind and great academic achievement, he was disparagingly referred to as 'The Bishop of Buckden' as he much preferred the Bishop's Palace at Buckden http://fobt.org.uk/ to his residence in Lincoln. He died at Buckden on October 8th 1691, aged 85, having only visited Lincoln twice during his 16 years as Bishop.
context_page_description: Thomas Barlow was an English academic and clergyman, who became Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, and Bishop of Lincoln. He was seen in his own time and by Edmund Venables in the Dictionary of National Biography to have been a trimmer, and have a reputation mixed with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were Calvinist and strongly anti-Catholic – he was among the last English bishops to dub the Pope Antichrist. He worked in the 1660s for "comprehension" of nonconformists, but supported a crackdown in the mid-1680s and declared loyalty to James II of England on his accession, though he had supported the Exclusion Bill, which would have denied it to him.
context_section_description: Thomas Barlow (1607/1608/1609 – 8 October 1691) was an English academic and clergyman, who became Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, and Bishop of Lincoln. He was seen in his own time and by Edmund Venables in the Dictionary of National Biography to have been a trimmer (conforming politically for advancement's sake), and have a reputation mixed with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were Calvinist and strongly anti-Catholic – he was among the last English bishops to dub the Pope Antichrist. He worked in the 1660s for "comprehension" of nonconformists, but supported a crackdown in the mid-1680s and declared loyalty to James II of England on his accession, though he had supported the Exclusion Bill, which would have denied it to him.
caption: Monument to Thomas Barlow, St Mary's Church, Buckden, Cambridgeshire
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