Thomas Cogan

, a Somersetshire Man born, of the same Family with those of Chard, was elected Fellow of Oriel coll. 1563. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty, he entred on the Physick line, and took a degree in that Faculty 1574. The year after he resigned his Fellowship, being about that time chief Master of the School at Manchester in Lancashire, where also he practiced his Faculty with good success. He hath written,

The Haven of Health, made for the comfort of Students, and consequently for all those that have a care of their health, &c. Lond. 1586. qu. there again 1605. and 1612. qu.

A preservative from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late Sickness at Oxford.—Printed with the former. The said Sickness hapned in. 1575.

Epistolarum familiarium Ciceronis Epitome, secundum tria genera libro secundo Epist. 3. proposita. Cantab. 1602. oct.

Epistolæ item aliæ familiares Ciceronis ad tria causarum genera, demonstrativum, deliberativum, & judiciale redactæ.

Orationes aliquot faciliores Ciceronis, in eadem tria genera Rhetoribus usitata, depositæ. What other things he wrote, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he deceased at Manchester, 1607 in sixteen hundred and seven, and was buried in the Church there 10. June. leaving behind him the character of an able Physician and Latinist, a good Neighbour, and an honest Man.