Thomas Otway (bishop)

Thomas Otway (1615 – 6 March 1692) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland. ^[1]

Otway was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Sedbergh School and later consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 29 January 1671. ^[2] He was translated to Ossory on 7 February 1680. ^[3] From 1680 until 1691 he was also Archdeacon of Armagh in commendam. ^[4] He attended the short-lived Patriot Parliament summoned by James II of England in 1689. He died on 6 March 1692 in Kilkenny. ^[5]

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 345. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
2. Cotton, Henry (1850). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 4, The Province of Connaught. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 67–78.
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 XI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 316–318, ISBN   0-19-821745-5
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p. 46. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878.
5. “Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 1” Cotton, H. 282: Dublin, Hodges, 1848.

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Thomas Bayly	Bishop of Killala and Achonry 1671–1680	Succeeded by John Smith
Preceded by Michael Ward	Archdeacon of Armagh 1680–1691	Succeeded by Edmund Arwaker
	Bishop of Ossory 1680–1693	Succeeded by John Hartstonge