Francis Gough Explained

Francis Gough, J.P.^[1] (1594-1634) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland^[2] during the first half of the Seventeenth century.^[3]

Gough was born in Wiltshire and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.^[4] He was appointed Chancellor of Limerick in 1618;^[5] and consecrated Bishop of Limerick in 1626.^[6] He died on 29 August 1634.^[7]

Notes and References

1. http://www.thepeerage.com/p42434.htm#i424340 thePeerage.com
2. Book: Brady, W. Maziere . William Maziere Brady . The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 . 1876 . Tipografia Della Pace . Rome . 2 .
3. [Theodore William Moody|Moody, T. W.]
4. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp569-599 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
5. Book: Cotton, Henry . Henry Cotton (divine) . The Province of Munster . Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland . 1 . 2nd . 1851 . Hodges and Smith . Dublin .
6. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
7. "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire" Burke, J.B. p446: London, Henry Colburn, 1845