Ralph Ironside

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Ralph Ironside was Archdeacon of Dorset [1] from 1671 until 1683. [2] He was the son of Ralph Ironside, rector of Long Bredy, Dorset, and the younger brother of Gilbert Ironside, Bishop of Bristol. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford [3] and later held incumbencies at Netherbury and Long Bredy. He died on 5 March 1683, being buried at Long Bredy.

The Archdeacon of Dorset is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Salisbury, England. He or she is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the four area deaneries: Purbeck, Poole, Wimborne, and Milton & Blandford.

Long Bredy village in United Kingdom

Long Bredy is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in south-west England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in the valley of the small River Bride, beneath chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 208.

Gilbert Ironside the elder English bishop

Gilbert Ironside the elder (1588–1671) was Bishop of Bristol.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Richard Meredith
Archdeacon of Dorset
16711683
Succeeded by
John Feilding

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References

  1. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fordingtondorset/Files2/AllSaintsBurials1653-1709.html Dorchester All Saints Church Burials 1613 - 1730
  2. 'Archdeacons: Dorset', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1996), pp. 19-20 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol8/pp19-20 [accessed 20 January 2015].
  3. 'Ibbetson-Izod', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 785-792 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp785-792 [accessed 22 January 2015]