Edmund Knox (bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe) explained

Edmund Knox
Order:	Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
Term Start:	1831
Term End:	1834
Order2:	Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe
Term Start2:	1834
Term End2:	1849
Birth Date:	1772
Death Date:	1849
Nationality:	Irish
Alma Mater:	Trinity College, Dublin

Edmund Knox (1772 – 3 May 1849) was an absentee Irish bishop in the mid 19th century whose death at the height of the Irish Famine lead to a famously critical leading article in The Times.^[1]

He was born in 1772, the 7th and youngest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Dean of Down from 1817 ^[2] to his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in 1831.^[3] Translated to become Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1834^[4] he died in post on 3 May 1849.

Notes and References

1. Thursday, May 10, 1849; pg. 5; Issue 20172; col D
2. "A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, F:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976
3. Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
4. Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Thursday, January 02, 1834; pg. [1]; Issue 6834. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.