Thomas Bladen (priest)

Thomas Bladen (1615 – 1695) was an Anglo-Irish priest in the seventeenth century. The eldest son and heir of William Bladen of Newton Solney in South Derbyshire and Mary Young, his family left London in 1626[1] where they had a printing/bookselling business at St Paul's Churchyard to live amongst Protestant settlers in Dublin.

Thomas attended Trinity College Dublin[2] from 1631–37 and became a Doctor of Divinity. During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Thomas was under siege at Geashill Castle with the Digby family (headed by the widowed Lady Offaly).[3]

  1. ^ Bladens in Ireland by Karen Proudler, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9566831-7-5
  2. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860) George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir Supplement p70: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. ^ Bodleian Library, Oxford, Wood 507 (26), also a letter of the Rebels to Lady Offalia, mother to Lord Digby, to deliver up her Castle of Geshel and her response to them