John Thayne or Thane was an English churchman, Archdeacon of Chester in 1707.
[1] Thane's father was a physician at Lynne, and his mother was a sister of John Pearson.
[2] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge[3] and incorporated at Oxford in 1682.
[5] On Pearson's death, the bulk of his books and papers went to Thane.
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