About the Author

Andrew Thomson read History at King’s College London in the 1950s and taught the subject, mainly as head of department at sixth form college level, from which, after 35 years, he took early retirement to devote himself to research and writing. He gained a doctorate from the University of London in 2004 on the clergy of the Diocese of Winchester before and after the Civil Wars, and has continued to write books and articles on seventeenth-century bishops, clergy, and the church courts of Winchester and other dioceses.