CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS (c. 1535-1603), English Puri tan divine, studied divinity at St. John's college, Cambridge; but on Mary's accession he had to leave the university, and found occupation as clerk to a counsellor-at-law. On the accession of Elizabeth he returned to Cambridge, and in 1569 he was appointed Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge ; but John Whitgift, on becoming vice-chancellor, deprived him of the post in Dec. 1570, and—as master of Trinity—of his fellowship in Sept. 15 71. After his deprivation by Whitgift, Cartwright visited Beza at Geneva. He returned to England in 1572, and might have become professor of Hebrew at Cambridge but for his expressed sympathy with the notorious "admonition to the Parliament" by John Field and Thomas Wilcox. To escape arrest he again went abroad, and acted as clergyman to the English residents at Antwerp and then at Middelburg. In 1585 he returned without permission to London and was twice imprisoned. He died at Warwick, on Dec. 27, 1603. Cartwright's views were distinctly Presbyterian and he opposed the Brownists or Independents.