1577

Thomas Yale

c. 1526 – 1577

Thomas Yale (c.1526–1577): Ecclesiastical Lawyer, Dean of Arches — [[Person 1]]

• Description: Thomas Yale, the third son of David Lloyd (Yale), became the most publicly prominent member of the early Tudor Yale family. Educated at [[Queens' College]], Cambridge, where he became a Fellow (1544–67), he took his LL.D. in 1557 and was admitted advocate of the Court of Canterbury in 1559. He rose to become chancellor, vicar-general, and judge of the court of audience to Archbishop Matthew Parker — effectively Parker's chief legal officer. He was Dean of Arches from 1567 to 1573. He was also chancellor of Bangor diocese (1562–70) and prebendary of Faenol, St Asaph (1564–73). On Grindal's sequestration as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1576, Yale administered the entire ecclesiastical province until his fatal illness in November 1577. A Yale Chapel was erected in Bryn Eglwys church, Denbighshire, in his time.
• Source: Dodd, A. H., YALE family, of Plâs yn Iâl and Plas Grono Wrexham, Dictionary of Welsh Biography (1959) — https://biography.wales/article/s-YALE-PLA-1500; Wrexham Area Civic Society, Elihu Yale — Ancestry — https://www.wrecsam.com/elihu-yale-ancestry/
• Quote: "He was Dean of Arches from 1567 to 1573, and on 12 July 1570 was made joint keeper, with Parker's son, of the prerogative court of Canterbury." — Dodd, Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1959