HUET, THOMAS (died 1591), Biblical translator

He entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1544, but he is unlikely to have been the Huet who graduated B.A. in 1562, though he is reputed to have been a D.D. He was admitted to a number of benefices; the mastership of Holy Trinity College, Ponte-fract, 9 May 1556; the rectories of Cefnllys and Llanbadarn-ym-Maelienydd, Radnorshire, 29 November 1559; the prebend of Llanbadarn Tref Eglwys, Cardiganshire, 21 April 1560; the rectory of Disserth, 27 April 1560; the precentorship of S. Davids, and (30 April 1561) a canonry there; in 1565, the prebend of Ystrad, Cardiganshire, and the prebend of Llandegla, Radnorshire. He was unsuccessfully recommended for the bishopric of Bangor by Richard Davies and archbishop Parker in January 1566.

He subscribed to the Thirty-nine Articles in 1562. He translated Revelations for the Welsh New Testament of 1567. In 1571 he dismissed the cathedral sexton for concealing papist books, and publicly burned them. He and his relatives benefited considerably from leases of church lands and grants of advowsons. He died 19 August 1591 at Tŷ Mawr, Llysdinam, and was buried in the chancel of Llanafan-fawr church, Brecknock.

Author

• Sir Glanmor Williams

Sources

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
• W. B. Jones and Edward Augustus Freeman, The History and Antiquities of St. David's (1856), 338-46
• E. Yardley, Menevia Sacra. Arch. Camb. (1927)
• W. J. Gruffydd, Llenyddiaeth Cymru o 1450 hyd 1600 (Lerpwl 1922), 47-50
• Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, ix, 274
• S. Davids Chapter Acts (N.L.W.), vols. A and B, passim
• Theophilus Jones, Edwin Davies, Joseph Russell Bailey, History of the County of Brecknock (1909-1930), ii, 227

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Thomas Huet

Additional Links

• VIAF: 2495653
• Wikidata: Q7790877

Published date: 1959

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