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

  1. Peers & Gentry
  2. thePeerage.com
  3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Fowler, Robert (1)"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co via Wikisource.
  4. Cathedral web-site
  5. Church of Ireland Rectors
  6. "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
  7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton,H. p290 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  8. National Library of Ireland
  9. Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, 8 January 1842; Issue 19033
  10. Essay "The bishop" (1960) by Hubert Butler, appearing P.32 in "Escape from the anthill"


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