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Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Feb. 8, 1813. [4th] s. of John, Governor of Lancaster Castle. B. Sept. 27, 1793, at Lancaster. School, Manchester (Dr Smith). ' Matric. Michs. 1813; B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1817. M.A., Dublin, 1835; D.D., Dublin, 1849. C. of Clifton, 1817-20. Chaplain of the Richmond General Penitentiary at Dublin, 1820-8; discharged his duties with remarkable fairness and candour, during a period of great religious and political unrest. R. of Roscrea, and Vicar-General of Killaloe, 1828-44. Dean of Limerick, 1844; Bishop, 1849-53. Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, 1853-67. A Commissioner of National Education, 1853. Ecclesiastical Commissioner for Ireland, 1866. Married, 1820, Mary, dau. of Thomas Chippendall, of Blackburn, Lancs. Held in high esteem by men of widely different convictions on political and religious subjects. Author, Ministerial Fidelity and Zeal, A Sermon, etc. Died suddenly July 12, 1867, at The Palace, Londonderry. Buried in grounds of St Columba Cathedral, Derry. M.I. there and in Lancaster parish church. (Boase, I. 1463; Manchester Sch. Reg., III. 64.)