Monument to Sir Eubule Thelwall, 1630, in Jesus College Chapel, Oxford. Female figures draw back a curtain revealing a kneeling figure.

Eubule Thelwall (c.1557-1630), principal of Jesus College, Oxford, was the fifth son of John Wynne Thelwall. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his BA in 1577. Thelwall went to Oxford in 1579, and took his MA in 1580. He accepted membership of Gray's Inn, became a barrister in 1599 and treasurer of Gray's Inn in 1625. He accepted a clerkship in the Alienation Office and was then promoted to become a master in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery (1617-1630). He was knighted on 29th June 1619, and elected MP for Denbighshire (1624-1626 and 1628-1629). College name Jesus College Collegium Jesu Named after Jesus of Nazareth Established 1571 Sister College Jesus College, Cambridge Principal Sir John Krebs JCR President John-Michael Arnold Undergraduates 344 MCR President Claire Brunel Graduates 134 Homepage Boatclub Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen... College name Jesus College Collegium Jesu Named after Jesus of Nazareth Established 1571 Sister College Jesus College, Cambridge Principal Sir John Krebs JCR President John-Michael Arnold Undergraduates 344 MCR President Claire Brunel Graduates 134 Homepage Boatclub Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen... Motto: Dat Deus Incrementum The Royal College of St. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... Entrance to Grays Inn Grays Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar. ... A barrister (advocate in Scotland and the Channel Islands, barrister-at-law in England, Wales, Ireland, and elsewhere) is a lawyer found in most Common law jurisdictions who principally, but not exclusively, represents litigants as their advocate before the courts of that jurisdiction. ... Court of Chancery, London, late 18th century The Court of Chancery was one of the courts of equity in England and Wales. ... The dignity of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. ... Denbighshire (Welsh: Sir Ddinbych) is a county in North Wales. ...

Thelwall became Principal of Jesus College, Oxford in 1621, and remained in this post until he died on 8th October 1630, aged 68. He was buried in Jesus College Chapel where a monument was erected to his memory by his brother Sir Bevis Thelwall (page of the king's bedchamber and clerk of the great wardrobe). Eubule Thelwall was called the "second founder" of Jesus College because he spent £5,000 building the hall and chapel and succeeded in securing a new charter and statutes for the college from James I in 1622. Thelwall never married, and left his estate (Plas Coch in the parish of Llanychan, Denbighshire) to his nephew John. There is a picture of him as a child in Jesus College. College name Jesus College Collegium Jesu Named after Jesus of Nazareth Established 1571 Sister College Jesus College, Cambridge Principal Sir John Krebs JCR President John-Michael Arnold Undergraduates 344 MCR President Claire Brunel Graduates 134 Homepage Boatclub Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen... James VI of Scotland/James I of England (Charles James Stuart) (June 19, 1566 – March 27, 1625) was King of England, King of Scotland and was the first to style himself King of Great Britain. ...

References

Simon Healy, Thelwall, Sir Eubule (c.1557-1630), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27166, accessed 27 June 2006)