Joseph Story (bishop) explained

Joseph Story was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.^[1]

Story was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.^[2] He was appointed Chaplain to the Irish House of Commons in 1731^[3] and Dean of Ferns in 1734.^[4] He was appointed to the episcopate at Bishop of Killaloe in 1740^[5] and translated to Kilmore in 1742.^[6] He died on 22 September 1757.^[7]

In literature

An unnamed Bishop of Kilmore appears in the latter portion of the short story "The Ash-tree" by M.R. James, set in 1754. Whether this is a Roman Catholic or Church of Ireland bishop is not explicitly stated, but in context the latter is more probable; if so, this character would be Joseph Story, who held the see at that time. In the story, the bishop is a guest at the country house of Sir Richard Fell and participates in the investigation of his death.

Notes and References

1. http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=563 NUI Galway
2. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p788: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
3. 'Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, Volumes 1–11' p125: Dublin, Abraham Bradley, 1763
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p351 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
5. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361
6. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976
7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p169 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878