Thomas Bladen (priest)

Thomas Bladen (1615 – 1695) was an Anglo-Irish priest in the seventeenth century. The eldest son and heir of William Bladen of Newton Solney in South Derbyshire and Mary Young, his family left London in 1626 where they had a printing/bookselling business at St Paul's Churchyard to live amongst Protestant settlers in Dublin.

Thomas attended Trinity College Dublin from 1631–37 and became a Doctor of Divinity. During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Thomas was under siege at Geashill Castle with the Digby family (headed by the widowed Lady Offaly).

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