Thomas Fowle

Thomas Fowle (c. 1530 – after 1597) was a Church of England clergyman, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, rector of Redgrave and Hinderclay, Suffolk, and prebendary of Norwich Cathedral.

He was briefly tutor to Edward de Vere, the future Earl of Oxford, and was later chaplain to Sir Nicholas Bacon.

[1][2] On 4 May 1558, Fowle began to receive a salary of ten pounds a year as tutor to the young Edward de Vere, then aged eight.

[1] On 22 July 1563, he was installed as second prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, when it was noted that he lived at Redgrave in Suffolk, where he was both rector of the parish and chaplain to Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon.

In 1570, he was part of a group of prebendaries of Norwich who "disaffected to the established order as regards matters ecclesiastical, entered into the choir of that cathedral, forcibly broke down the organs and committed certain other disorders of the like outrageous character".