Thomas Rushhook (died ) was an English Dominican, bishop and chaplainMcKisack The Fourteenth Century p. 426. to Richard II of England.
Rushhook was Provincial of the Dominican Order in England 1373 to 1382, being deposed at one point.Friaries: The house of Black Friars: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 107-22 Date accessed: 26 July 2007 He was Archdeacon of St Asaph 1382–3,British History Online: Archdeacons of Aspagh accessed on 25 August 2007 bishop of Llandaff on 16 January 1383,Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 293 and then was translated to be bishop of Chichester on 16 October 1385.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 239
A supporter of Richard II, Rushhook was impeached in 1388.McKisack The Fourteenth Century p. 458. Subsequently, he was in Ireland, as bishop of Breifne (Kilmore), where he died about 1392.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 363
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McKisack, May The Fourteenth Century