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Robert Thwaits

academic administrator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7350394 ↗
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Robert Thwaits (also Thwayts and Thwaytes) was an English medieval academic administrator.

Thwaits was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University on 1441 and 1453. He was the Chancellor of Oxford University during 1445–6. From 1450 until 1465, he was the Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

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Bibliography

Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). The Encyclopædia of Oxford. Macmillan.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Thwaits” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.