Francis Marsh Explained

Type:archbishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Francis Marsh
Honorific-Suffix:D.D.
Archbishop of Dublin
Primate of Ireland
Church:Church of Ireland
Province:Dublin
Diocese:Dublin and Glendalough
Appointed:14 February 1682
Term:1682–1693
Predecessor:John Parker
Successor:Narcissus Marsh
Ordination:27 January 1661
Ordained By:Jeremy Taylor
Consecration:22 December 1667
Consecrated By:Thomas Price
Birth Date:23 October 1626
Birth Place:Gloucestershire, England
Spouse:Mary Taylor
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Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh (1673–1682)

Francis Marsh (23 October 1626 – 16 November 1693) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1682 to 1693.[1]

He was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in April 1642 as the son of Henry Marsh esq. of Edgeworth, Gloucestershire.[2] He had previously been Dean of Connor (1660–1661), Dean of Armagh (1661–1667), Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe and Kilmore and Ardagh. He married Mary, the daughter of Bishop Jeremy Taylor.[3] Their son Jeremiah Marsh was the Dean of Kilmore.[4] From his father-in-law, Jeremy Taylor, he inherited a silver watch, said to have been a gift from Charles I. This watch remained in the family of his great-grandson, Francis Marsh, barrister-at-law.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. .
  2. Web site: ACAD Francis Marsh. August 9, 2023.
  3. Web site: Belfast Cathedral web site . 30 April 2011 . 20 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720091945/http://www.belfastcathedral.org/visitors/virtual-tour/item/54/corbel-jeremy-taylor/ . dead .
  4. Book: Cumberland, Richard . A Treatise of the Laws of Nature . Maxwell . John . 1727 . R. Phillips . en.
  5. Burke's Peerage, 1857, p.664: Sir Henry Marsh, Baronet