Thomas Jacomb

He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in the Easter term, 1640; and when the First English Civil War broke out moved to St John's College, Cambridge (28 October 1642), where he graduated B.A.

Shortly afterwards he signed the covenant, and became a fellow of Trinity College in place of an ejected royalist.

at Cambridge by royal mandate dated 19 November 1660, along with two other Presbyterian ministers, William Bates and Robert Wilde.

He was on the Presbyterian side, and took a leading part in drawing up the exceptions against the Book of Common Prayer.

He died there of a cancer, aged 66, on Easter Sunday, 27 March 1687, and was buried on 3 April at St. Anne's, Aldersgate, with a large number of conforming and nonconforming ministers attending his funeral.

Samuel Rolle in his Prodromus speaks of Jacomb as a person of "high repute for good life, learning, and excellent gravity".