Thomas Randolph D.D. (1701–1783) was an English

England

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 academic, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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Life

Randolph graduated M.A. and D.D. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1723. He attracted the attention of John Potter, then Bishop of Oxford

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, who, after he became Archbishop of Canterbury

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 in 1737, gave several preferments to Randolph. He became noted as an orthodox Anglican theologian, and in 1748 was elected President of Corpus. In 1756, he was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, until 1759. He published numerous works.

Sources

• Concise Dictionary of National Biography