Thomas Cartwright (bishop)

Thomas Cartwright (1634–1689) was an English bishop and diarist, known as a supporter of James II.

[4] In October 1687 he was one of three Royal Commissioners, with Robert Wright and Sir Thomas Jenner, sent to Magdalen College, Oxford.

Despite his noted tolerance of the Roman Catholic faith, he refused firmly to convert to that communion on his death bed.

His eldest son, John, was in holy orders, and obtained preferment by the influence of his father.

Five other sons, Richard, Gervas, Charles, Thomas, Henry, and two daughters, Alicia and Sarah, are mentioned in Cartwright's Diary.