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]
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