Earl of Bandon was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Francis Bernard, 1st Viscount Bandon. He had already been created Baron Bandon, of Bandon Bridge in the County of Cork, in 1793, Viscount Bandon, of Bandon Bridge in the County of Cork, in 1795, and was made Viscount Bernard at the same time as he was granted the earldom. These titles were also in the Peerage of Ireland. The titles descended from father to son until the death of his great-grandson, James, the fourth Earl, in 1924. The late Earl was succeeded by his first cousin twice removed, Percy Bernard, the fifth Earl. The latter was the great-grandson of the Right Reverend Charles Bernard, Bishop of Tuam, younger son of the second Earl. the fifth Earl was an Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force. He had two daughters but no sons and on his death in 1979 the titles became extinct.
Percy Brodrick Bernard was an Irish Conservative Party politician who sat briefly in the House of Commons in 1880.
Thomas Gibson George Collins was Bishop of Meath for a short time in the second quarter of the 20th century.
Charles King Irwin was an eminent Irish clergyman in the middle third of the 20th century.
Benjamin John Plunket was a 20th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.
Charles Parsons Reichel was an Anglican Bishop and author in the 19th century.
He was born in 1816, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1847. After a curacy at St. Mary's Church, Dublin he was Professor of Latin at Queen's College, Belfast from 1850 to 1864. A son, Sir Harry Reichel, was the first Principal of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and a Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales. During his career he held incumbencies at Trim, Mullingar and Clonmacnoise. He was Archdeacon of Meath from 1875 to 1882;Dean of Clonmacnoise from 1882 to 1885 before being consecrated Bishop of Meath in 1885, a position he held until his death on 29 March 1894.
The Most Rev John Orr was a 20th-century Anglican Bishop.
Born in 1874 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1900. He began his ministry with curacies at St John’s, Dublin and All Saints, Aghade, and St Nicholas, Dundalk and Kilmore Cathedral. In 1912 he became Rector of Sligo and in 1917 appointed Dean of Tuam. In 1923 he became Bishop of Tuam and in 1927 was translated to Meath. He died in post on 21 July 1938
The Most Reverend William Hardy Holmes was a 20th-century Anglican Bishop.
James McCann was a 20th-century Anglican Bishop.
John Gregg was an Anglican bishop.
James Wilson (1780-1857) was an Irish bishop of the Church of Ireland.
Samuel Kyle was an Irish bishop in the Church of Ireland.
Ludlow Tonson, 3rd Baron Riversdale, was a Church of Ireland bishop.
Maurice FitzGerald Day was a Church of Ireland bishop in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Henry Stewart O’Hara was an eminent Church of Ireland bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Robert Miller (1866–1931) was a Church of Ireland bishop in the first half of the 20th century. Miller was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained for Christ Church Derry in 1892. He was Rector of Donegal from 1894 to 1900. After a further incumbency at Raphoe he was Secretary of the Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in Ireland until 1916.
Edmund Knox was an absentee Irish bishop in the mid 19th century whose death at the height of the Irish Famine lead to a famously critical leading article in The Times.
Nathaniel Alexander, was an Anglican Bishop in Ireland during the first half of the 19th century.
George Hall was an academic at Trinity College Dublin, who served as the fourth Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics from 1799 to 1800, as Provost of the College from 1806 to 1811, and the Church of Ireland Bishop of Dromore for a few days before his death in 1811.
The Archdeacon of Ardagh was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Ardagh. As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the Diocese.
