Thomas Bainbrig
1636-1703. Vice-Master; Rector of Orwell.A minor Fellow in 1656, major Fellow in 1660. Bainbrig presented to the College Kneller’s painting of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax.
Crest: a stag’s head erased (with a jagged edge).
Arms: on a chevron between 3 martlets (swifts), 3 stags’ heads caboshed (shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears).
Memorial inscription
P.M.S.
THOMÆ BAINBRIG S.T.P
RECTORIS DE ORWELL
ET HVJVSCE COLLEGIJ NVPER UICE-MAGISTRI
QVI NATVS CANTABRIGIÆ IVNIJ 26O. 1636
DENATVS EST IBIDEM AVGVSTI 16O. 1703
ANNO ÆTATIS SVÆ 68O.
Translation
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Bainbrig, D.D., who was Rector of Orwell and lately Vice-Master of the College. He was born in Cambridge on 26th June 1636 and died there on 16th August 1703 at the age of sixty-seven.
Buried in the Ante-Chapel.
