In 1606 John Tomkins succeeded Orlando Gibbons as organist of King's College, Cambridge.
After studying music there for ten years, he received the degree of Mus.
[1][2][3] Phineas Fletcher, a friend of Tomkins at King's College, made him an interlocutor (named Thomalin) in three of his eclogues.
[1][2] Some anthems composed by John Tomkins are included in Barnard's manuscript collection.
[3] He composed a set of sixteen keyboard variations on "John, come kiss me now", which his brother Thomas copied in Additional MS. 29996 (at the British Museum).