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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:31, 12 March 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Robert Thistlethwayte''' (1690&amp;ndash;1744) was an [[Anglican]] clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Oxford]].&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Robert Thistlethwayte''' (1690&amp;ndash;1744) was an [[Anglican]] clergyman and Warden of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Wadham College, Oxford]].&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1737 Thistlethwayte fled to Boulogne after being accused of making homosexual advances towards a student, William French, whose tutor [[John Swinton]] was also accused of homosexual practices. Satirical poetry was written about these events.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm Rictor Norton, &#039;&#039;The State of Rome, 1739&#039;&#039;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1737 Thistlethwayte fled to Boulogne after being accused of making homosexual advances towards a student, William French, whose tutor [[John Swinton]] was also accused of homosexual practices. Satirical poetry was written about these events.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm Rictor Norton, &#039;&#039;The State of Rome, 1739&#039;&#039;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:25, 11 December 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Robert Thistlethwayte''' (1690&amp;ndash;1744) was an Anglican clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, [[Oxford]].&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Robert Thistlethwayte''' (1690&amp;ndash;1744) was an <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Anglican<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, [[Oxford]].&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1737 Thistlethwayte fled to Boulogne after being accused of making homosexual advances towards a student, William French, whose tutor [[John Swinton]] was also accused of homosexual practices. Satirical poetry was written about these events.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm Rictor Norton, &#039;&#039;The State of Rome, 1739&#039;&#039;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1737 Thistlethwayte fled to Boulogne after being accused of making homosexual advances towards a student, William French, whose tutor [[John Swinton]] was also accused of homosexual practices. Satirical poetry was written about these events.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm Rictor Norton, &#039;&#039;The State of Rome, 1739&#039;&#039;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p><span class="autocomment">References</span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:50, 31 December 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l27">Line 27:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 27:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:People accused of homosexuality]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:People accused of homosexuality]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:1744 deaths]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:1744 deaths]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:1690 births]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>moved <a href="/wiki/Robert_Thistlethwaite" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Thistlethwaite">Robert Thistlethwaite</a> to <a href="/wiki/Robert_Thistlethwayte" title="Robert Thistlethwayte">Robert Thistlethwayte</a>: Spelling mistake</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:09, 6 September 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:08, 6 September 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Robert Thistlethwayte&#039;&#039;&#039; (1690&amp;ndash;1744) was an Anglican clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, [[Oxford]].&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Robert Thistlethwayte&#039;&#039;&#039; (1690&amp;ndash;1744) was an Anglican clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, [[Oxford]].&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1737 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thistlethwaite </del>fled to Boulogne after being accused of making homosexual advances towards a student, William French, whose tutor [[John Swinton]] was also accused of homosexual practices. Satirical poetry was written about these events.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm Rictor Norton, ''The State of Rome, 1739''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1737 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thistlethwayte </ins>fled to Boulogne after being accused of making homosexual advances towards a student, William French, whose tutor [[John Swinton]] was also accused of homosexual practices. Satirical poetry was written about these events.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm Rictor Norton, ''The State of Rome, 1739''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://web.archive.org/web/20060925024300/http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm &lt;/ref&gt; The following limerick possibly also refers to Thistlethwayte.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/limerick.htm</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://web.archive.org/web/20060925024300/http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm &lt;/ref&gt; The following limerick possibly also refers to Thistlethwayte.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/limerick.htm</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bawdy Limericks</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bawdy Limericks</div></td></tr> </table>

Ross Burgess https://lgbthistoryuk.org/index.php?title=Robert_Thistlethwayte&diff=8634&oldid=prev 2012-09-06T17:55:51Z

<p><span class="autocomment">References</span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:55, 6 September 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l24">Line 24:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 24:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Based on a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thistlethwayte</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Based on a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thistlethwayte</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;references/&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;references/&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:People accused of homosexuality]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Ross Burgess https://lgbthistoryuk.org/index.php?title=Robert_Thistlethwayte&diff=8631&oldid=prev 2012-09-06T17:47:56Z

<p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;Robert Thistlethwayte&#039;&#039;&#039; (1690–1744) was an Anglican clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/r...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Robert Thistlethwayte&#039;&#039;&#039; (1690&amp;ndash;1744) was an Anglican clergyman and Warden of Wadham College, [[Oxford]].&lt;ref&gt;http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63888&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In 1737 Thistlethwaite fled to Boulogne after being accused of making homosexual advances towards a student, William French, whose tutor [[John Swinton]] was also accused of homosexual practices. Satirical poetry was written about these events.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm Rictor Norton, &#039;&#039;The State of Rome, 1739&#039;&#039;<br /> http://web.archive.org/web/20060925024300/http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rome.htm &lt;/ref&gt; The following limerick possibly also refers to Thistlethwayte.&lt;ref&gt;http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/limerick.htm<br /> Bawdy Limericks<br /> 1998<br /> http://web.archive.org/web/20060925025111/http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/limerick.htm&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ::There once was a Warden of Wadham<br /> ::Who approved of the folkways of [[Sodom]],<br /> :::For a man might, he said,<br /> :::Have a very poor head<br /> ::But be a fine Fellow, at bottom. <br /> <br /> Allegations of homosexual behaviour, which was considered scandalous at that time, and the College&#039;s decision to take out fire insurance combined to prompt the following verse:<br /> <br /> ::Well did the am&#039;rous sone of Wadham<br /> ::Insure their house &#039;gainst future flame;<br /> ::They knew their crime, the crime of Sodom,<br /> ::And judg&#039;d their punishment the same.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> <br /> Based on a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thistlethwayte<br /> &lt;references/&gt;</div>

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