Thomas Holyoake

Born at Stoneythorpe, Warwickshire, he attended Coventry grammar school; entered Queen’s College, Oxford, in Michaelmas term 1632 (B.A.

Consisting chiefly of undergraduates at Oxford University at the beginning of the civil war, in which capacity, doing good service to the royal cause, he was created D.D.

He practised successfully in Warwickshire until the Restoration, when Thomas, Lord Leigh preferred him to the rectory of Whitnash, near Warwick.

Francis Holyoake, his father, had compiled a 'Dictionarie Etymologocall,’ which was annexed to 'Riders Dictionarie correct,’ 2 pts., London, 1617.

But Holyoake had meanwhile contributed so much to the work that a fourth edition was published as almost his own, with the title 'Dictionarium Etymologicum Latinum,’ &c., 3 pts., London, 1633.