Thomas Lever (Leaver, Leiver) (1521–1577) was an English Protestant reformer and Marian exile, one of the founders of the Puritan tendency in the Church of England.
[1] From 1547 he was a leader in his college, with Roger Hutchinson, in discussion of the mass and transubstantiation, disquieting the Master William Bill.
He was then asked by an English exile group at Wesel to lead them, and he took this congregation of about 100, working people mostly, to Aarau.
[6] On his death in July 1577, he was buried within the alter area of the hospital chapel; he was succeeded as master by his brother Ralph Lever.
[7] Thomas Lever was better known as a preacher than an author, but he published A Comment on the Lord's Prayer; several sermons (one preached in "Poule's Churche at London, in the Shroudes", two delivered before Edward VI, and another preached at Paul's Cross); and a volume with the title of A Treatise of the Right Way from the Danger of Sinne and Vengeance in this Wicked Worlde, unto Godly Wealth and Salvation in Christe.