Thomas Herne

Thomas Herne (died 1722) was an English academic and lay participant in religious controversy.

A native of Suffolk, he was admitted as a pensioner at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[1] on 29 October 1711.

In 1716 Herne was elected to a vacant fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, and on 11 October 1718 proceeded M.A.

He died a layman and unmarried, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, in 1722.

Herne took part in the Bangorian controversy, and published under the pseudonym ‘Phileleutherus Cantabrigiensis:’ He also wrote: Herne issued in 1719 an account of all the major pamphlets issued in the Bangorian controversy to the end of 1718; a continuation of this account to the end of 1719, London, 1720; and a reissue of the whole, London, 1720.