Burnet Thomas

Burnet, Thomas, born at Croft, Yorkshire, in 1635, and educated first under Tillotson at Clare Hall, and then under Cudworth at Christ's College, Cambridge, after holding several academical offices and acting as tutor to the Dukes of Bolton and Ormonde, was elected (1685) master of the Charterhouse. He strenuously opposed the appointment by James II., in disregard of the statutes, of Andrew Popham as a pensioner of the house. Of his various works and tracts on theological subjects, mostly in Latin, the best known is The Sacred Theory of the Earth.