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Thomas Alleyne (c.1488–1558) was an English priest of the sixteenth century. He is remembered for founding schools.
Details of his early life are lacking, although he appears to have had roots in Staffordshire where he later endowed two schools. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that he was probably born in Sudbury (on the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire).[1] He was possibly educated at Cambridge.
By 1526 Alleyne became rector of Stevenage, Hertfordshire. He was buried in St Nicholas' Church, Stevenage, although no memorial survives there.
- ^ Stephens, Richard. "Alleyne, Thomas (c.1488–1558)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95060. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)