TOMKINS. A family which, in the 16th and 17th centuries, produced many good musicians.
Rev. Thomas Tomkins was chanter and minor canon of Gloucester Cathedral in the latter part of the 16th century. He contributed to ‘The Triumphes of Oriana,
’ 1600, the madrigal ‘The faunes and satirs tripping,
’ commonly attributed to his more celebrated son and namesake.
John Tomkins, Mus. Bac., one of his sons, was probably a chorister of Gloucester Cathedral. He afterwards became a scholar of King's...