Thomas Burgess OSB (1 October 1791 – 27 November 1854) was an English Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Clifton from 1851 to 1854.
Burgess was ordained to the priesthood in 1813 and elected Prior of Ampleforth in July 1818.
His next ministry appointments were first to Cannington, then to Portland Chapel, Bath, and finally to Monmouth where he served from 1835 to 1851.
[1][4] He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Clifton by the Holy See on 27 June 1851, and consecrated at St George's Cathedral, Southwark on 27 July 1851.
The principal consecrator was Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop William Wareing of Northampton and Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne of Birmingham.