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Sir Thomas Pope (c. 1507 – 29 January 1559), was a prominent public servant in mid-16th-century England, a Member of Parliament, a wealthy landowner, and the founder of Trinity College, Oxford.
Thomas Pope (died 1603), also credited as Thomas Poope in the First Folio, was an Elizabethan actor, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and a colleague of William Shakespeare. Pope was a " comedian and acrobat ."
If it can be proved that he was the father of the elder Alexander Pope, it will follow that Thomas Pope, second earl of Downe, was his uncle: and consequently, that sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity college, was the poet's uncle, to a high de|gree.
Thomas Pope was an Elizabethan actor, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and a colleague of William Shakespeare. He was one of the original sharers in the new Globe Theatre, but died in 1603.
A devout catholic with no surviving children, Thomas Pope saw the Foundation of an Oxford college as a means of ensuring that he and his family would always be remembered in the prayers and masses of its members.
Trinity’s Founder Sir Thomas Pope was a privy councillor of Queen Mary Tudor. His vision for his new College was of a small community of clerics, diligent in their studies and in teaching undergraduates, and faithful in saying daily prayers for the souls of himself and his wife, Lady Elizabeth.
Sir Thomas Pope-Blount his eldest son was born in 1649, and was educated under his father's inspection. His CENSURA CELEBRIORUM AUTHORUM, which is a compilation of great erudition and labour, is well known to the critic and the li|terary historian.
