Edward Edgeworth

Irish Anglican bishop

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Edward Edgeworth, D.D. (died 1595) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the sixteenth century.[1]

An Englishman, probably from Edgware, north London, he was Vicar of East Kirkby before coming over to Ireland, probably in the early 1560s. He was appointed a Prebendary of St Michan in St Patrick's Cathedral in 1586;[2] and later that year of Tipperkevin in Christ Church Cathedral in the same city.[3] 1n 1590 he became Vicar of Carrickfergus and in 1593, Bishop of Down and Connor. He died two years later.

He amassed a considerable fortune, which he left to his brother Francis, who was appointed joint Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in Ireland in about 1606 and held the office until about 1620. Francis founded a gifted Irish dynasty whose most notable members were Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter, the novelist Maria Edgeworth. The family gave its name to Edgeworthstown, County Longford.

Edgeworthstown House, home of the Edgeworth family

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1. ^ Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 0713642556
2. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p71 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
3. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p181 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878

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Bishops of Down and Connor; of Down, Connor and Dromore; and of Down and Dromore

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* Tiberio Ugolino
* Robert Blyth
* Eugene Magennis
* James MacCawell
* John Merriman
* Hugh Allen
* Edward Edgeworth
* John Charden
* Robert Humpston
* John Todd
* James Dundas
* Robert Echlin
* Henry Leslie
* Jeremy Taylor
* Roger Boyle
* Thomas Hacket
* Samuel Foley
* Edward Walkington
* Edward Smyth
* Francis Hutchinson
* Carew Reynell
* John Ryder
* John Whitcombe
* Robert Downes
* Arthur Smyth
* James Traill
* William Dickson
* Nathaniel Alexander
* Richard Mant (became Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore)

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* Richard Mant
* Robert Knox
* William Reeves
* Thomas Welland
* John Crozier
* Charles D'Arcy
* Charles Grierson
* John MacNeice
* Charles King Irwin

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* William Kerr
* Frederick Mitchell
* George Quin
* Robin Eames
* Gordon McMullan
* Harold Miller
* David McClay

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