Thomas
Tomkins
Born [location unknown]
Son of Thomas Farington Tomkins
and Margaret (Pore) Tomkins
Brother of
Thomas Tomkins BMus [half], John Tomkins MusB [half], Giles Tomkins [half] and Robert Tomkins [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 24
in the galleon Revenge, at sea off Flores, Spain
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Jan 2019
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Biography
(Not the composer)
From 1577, a Vicar Choral at St. David's Cathedral.
In 1586 he was expelled from his Cathedral post as a result of misdemeanour. He ran away to sea and was subsequently killed on board The Revenge, Grenville’s ship, in 1591 in the Battle of Flores. Tennyson’s poem The Revenge recalls those events.
Sources
- Anthony Boden: Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan. Ashgate Publishing 2005. ISBN 0-7546-5118-5
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