THOMAS, a learned English writer in the 17th century, was the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Cumberlow-Green in Herefordshire, knight. He was born at Cumberlow about 1644, and educated in his father's house, whence he removed to the university of Cambridge. He afterwards travelled; and, upon his return to England, prosecuted his studies in the Middle Temple. He married, when young, Dorothy, the eldest daughter of Sir James Engan of Flower, in Northamptonshire. He wrote, 1. A volume of Poems. 2. History of Philosophy, and Lives of the Philosophers. 3. A Translation of Echylus, with a Commentary; and several other works. He died in 1678.