Robert Fowler (bishop of Ossory)
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Robert Fowler was an Anglican bishop in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries.[1]
Fowler was educated at Westminster[2] and Christ Church, Oxford.[3] He was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1793 to 1794;[4] Rector of Urney[5] and Archdeacon of Dublin from 1794 until 1813; Bishop of Ossory[6] from 1813 to 1835;[7] and then the inaugural Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin[8] from 1835 until his death aged 75 on 31 December 1841.[9]
He was the son of Archbishop Robert Fowler of Dublin.[10]
Notes
- ^ Peers & Gentry
- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Cathedral web-site
- ^ Church of Ireland Rectors
- ^ "A New History of Ireland "Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p290 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ National Library of Ireland
- ^ Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, 8 January 1842; Issue 19033
- ^ Essay "The bishop" (1960) by Hubert Butler, appearing P.32 in "Escape from the anthill"
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