Thomas Rotherham

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Dr Thomas Rotherham (1423 – 1500) was an English cleric and minister. He was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1467, created Bishop of Rochester 1468, moved to the Bishopric of Lincoln in 1472, and then Archbishop of York from 1480. He was Lord Chancellor from 1474 to 1483.

He is remembered as the second founder of Lincoln College, Oxford which, without his generosity, would probably not have survived the fifteenth century.

Born in Rotherham, he founded The College of Jesus in the town during the 1480s, but it was later dissolved. He is remembered in the name of Thomas Rotherham College, which is the post-1967 descendent of Rotherham Grammar School for Boys, which had its origins in the original College of Jesus. He was 4 times Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

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