Thomas Chester was an Irish Anglican bishop in the penultimate decade of the sixteenth century (1580s). The son of William Chester"Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley" Waters, R.E.C. p10:London; Robson & sons; 1878 Lord Mayor of London,J.D. Alsop, 'Chester, Sir William (c.1509–1595?), mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. That supersedes the article by C. Welch in the Old D.N.B., which contains some inaccuracies. he was Bishop of Elphin from 1580 until 1583.His elder brother was the first Chester baronet.George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900
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