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Thomas Micklethwaite ( - 1663)

Church of England minister with Yorkshire roots. He was the father of Sir John Micklethwaite M.D. (1612–1682) who was born near Beverley and who attended Charles II and was President of the Royal College of Physicians.

Micklethwaite served in the Westminster Assembly from 1643–1649. The assembly “was commissioned by parliament in July 1643 to revise the doctrine, liturgy, and government of the English church” (Van Dixhoorn). A “character” (presumably a short biography rather than a short satirical sketch) of Micklethwaite was included in a manuscript collected by Thoresby (537). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/96925 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Members of the Westminster assembly and Scottish commissioners (1643–1652).
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Sermons preached about 1630, by Mr. Hooker, Shepherd, Rogers of Rowley, Reyner of Lincoln, Collier of Bradford, Anderson, Mickethwait, Roberts, Shaw, &c.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Also the Characters of Mr. Jer. Whitaker, John Foxcroft, Rob. Johnson, Rich. Clayton, Ol. Bowles, Tho. Mickethwait (Father of Sir John, the noted Physician) Hen. Wilkinson, sen. and jun. Joshua Hoyl, William Rathband, and Theodore Bathurst, Yorkeshire Members of the Assembly of Divines, transcribed from Dr. Sampson's Papers.