BARLOW, Thomas, was born at Orton in Westmoreland, in 1607. He was appointed fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, in 1633, and two years after chosen reader of metaphysics to the university. He was keeper of the Bodleian library, and in 1657 was chosen provost of Queen's College. After the restoration of Charles II. he was nominated one of the commissioners for restoring the members unjustly expelled in 1648. He wrote at that time The Case of Toleration in Matters of Religion, to Mr R. Boyle. In 1675 he was made bishop of Lincoln. After the popish plot he published several tracts against the Roman Catholic religion, in which he showed an uncommon extent of learning, and skill in polemical divinity. Nevertheless, when the Duke of York was proclaimed king, with expressions of affection for His Majesty he veered towards popery; but after the Revolution he as readily voted that the king had abdicated his kingdom, and zealously excluded from their benefices such of the clergy as refused the oaths. He died at Buckden, in Huntingdonshire, on the 8th of October 1691, in the 85th year of his age.