Francis Gough

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Francis Gough, J.P. [1] (1594-1634) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland [2] during the first half of the Seventeenth century. [3]

Gough was born in Wiltshire and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [4] He was appointed Chancellor of Limerick in 1618; [5] and consecrated Bishop of Limerick in 1626. [6] He died on 29 August 1634. [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ thePeerage.com
  2. ↑ Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
  3. ↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Volume 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-821745-5.
  4. ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
  5. ↑ Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
  6. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
  7. ↑ "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire" Burke, J.B. p446: London, Henry Colburn, 1845


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