As head of Yale College, Thomas Clap was both the last to be called " rector " ( 1740 – 1745 ) and the first to be referred to as president ( 1745 – 1766 ).

" Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin on 31 July 1893 by Douglas Hyde (), the son of a Church of Ireland rector from Frenchpark, County Roscommon with the aid of Eugene O ' Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Thomas O ' Neill Russell and others.

After a pointed sermon from the incumbent rector, Thomas Rotherham was compelled to give his support and effectively re-founded it in 1478, with a new charter from King Edward IV.

While in France, Leland kept in touch with his friends and sponsors in England, probably including Thomas Wolsey ( d. 1530 ), Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, who made him rector at Laverstoke, Hampshire.

The eldest son of Thomas Fuller, rector of Aldwinkle St Peter's, Northamptonshire, he was born at his father's rectory and was baptised on 19 June 1608.

He was appointed vicar of St Thomas ' Church in Oxford in 1616, and in 1630 he was also made the rector of Segrave, Leicester.

In the following year he accepted the office of conrector in the Thomas school of Leipzig, of which Johann Matthias Gesner was then rector, an office to which Ernesti succeeded in 1734.

Thomas Crawford, Anglican rector of Christ Church at Dover.

Rather, he appears to have been in 1538 rector of Liddington, Wiltshire, a benefice in Sir Thomas Arundell's gift, though he must have been a non-resident incumbent.

His father was Thomas Thurloe, rector of Abbess Roding.

After the initial deaths, the townspeople turned to their rector, the Reverend William Mompesson, and the Puritan Minister Thomas Stanley.

Thomas Cleveland, of Hinckley, and John Lufton, rector of lbstock, had offered money or prayers for the king.

On 28 October 2002, the rector of Saint Thomas Church, the Reverend Andrew C. Mead, was made an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Frances ( d 1859 ) married Samuel Holland, precentor of Chichester and rector of Poynings, Sussex ( a grandson of Frances and Samuel was Thomas Erskine Holland the jurist ); Elizabeth ( d 1800 ) married her cousin Captain ( later Sir ) David Erskine, the illegitimate son of the 11th earl of Buchan ; Mary ( d 1804 ) married lawyer Edward Morris.

Humphrey later became rector of Woolbeding, a neighbouring parish, where Thomas Otway was brought up.

Williamson subsequently moved to the United States, where he served as the rector of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Ridgefield, Connecticut from 1983, and continued in the position when the seminary moved to Winona, Minnesota in 1988.

After his episcopal consecration Williamson remained rector of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, Minnesota.

Thomas Pitt ( 5 July 1653 – 28 April 1726 ), born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India.

Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan, the fourth rector of the Catholic University of America in Washington, proposed the construction of a national shrine to commemorate the Immaculate Conception in the country's capital.

In 1421 the rector of the parish church, Thomas de la Warre ( Lord of the manor of Manchester ), obtained a licence from Henry V to refound the church as a collegiate foundation.

" Following the end of the Commonwealth in 1660 the living of Ackworth was restored to him and Bradley became rector of St Cuthberts once more after Thomas Birkbeck was in turn ejected from the rectory.

He then studied under William Thomas, rector of Ubley and a puritan divine ; Bull, however, was more influenced by his son Samuel Thomas, who directed Bull to read Richard Hooker, Henry Hammond, and Jeremy Taylor.

When both his parents died in 1757 he was adopted by his uncle Thomas Chase, who was the Anglican rector of St. Paul's parish in Annapolis.

St Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica, II: II Quaestio 25, Article 4 states that we should love our neighbour more than our ourselves.

St Thomas interprets ' You should love your neighbour as yourself ' from Leviticus 19 and Matthew 22 as meaning that love for ourselves is the exemplar of love for others.

The Choir Organ at St. Thomas, Strasbourg, designed in 1905 on principles defined by Albert Schweitzer.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.

Between Roman Catholicism and royal supremacy there is, as St Thomas More concluded, no reconciliation ".

While Aristotle likewise identifies the first two characteristics, St. Thomas conceives of the third as an appropriation from principles developed by neo-Platonic and Augustinian thinkers.

* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

Abbey Seal ( device ) | seal, depicting murder of St Thomas.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

St. Thomas chose the analogy: all beings are like, or analogous to, each other in existing.

Pointing out that predicables are predicated univocally of substances ; that is, they refer to " the same thing " found in each instance, St. Thomas argued that whatever can be said about being is not univocal, because all beings are unique, each actuated by a unique existence.

St. Thomas called them ( perhaps not originally ) the transcendentia, " transcendentals ", because they " climb above " the categories, just as being climbs above substance.

Meanwhile, over the period 1672 – 1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.

In 1917, the United States purchased St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix from Denmark for US $ 25 million, renaming them the United States Virgin Islands.

The fleet was under the command of Captain Thomas Troubridge, and had been sent by Earl St. Vincent to reinforce Nelson with orders that he was to pursue and intercept the Toulon convoy.

The Chapel of St Thomas Becket is a ruin of a 14th century building in Bodmin churchyard.

It was once taboo in Western society for women to wear clothing traditionally associated with men, except in certain circumstances such as for necessity ( as per St. Thomas Aquinas's guidelines in Summa Theologiae II ),

St. Thomas Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, accepts the death penalty as a deterrent and prevention method but not as a means of vengeance.