Robert Fowler (bishop of Ossory) explained
Robert Fowler was an Anglican bishop in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries.[1]
Fowler was educated at Westminster[2] and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1793 to 1794;[3] Rector of Urney[4] and Archdeacon of Dublin from 1794 until 1813; Bishop of Ossory[5] from 1813 to 1835;[6] and then the inaugural Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin[7] from 1835 until his death aged 75 on 31 December 1841.[8]
He was the son of Archbishop Robert Fowler of Dublin.[9]
Notes and References
- http://peerageandgentry.com/texts/dod1841/ossoryfernsandleighlinbishopof.html Peers & Gentry
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p38899.htm#i388983 thePeerage.com
- https://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/the-deans-of-saint-patricks-cathedral/ Cathedral web-site
- http://www.cotyroneireland.com/churchrecord/ministers-cofi.html Church of Ireland Rectors
- "A New History of Ireland "Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p290 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- http://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_033398 National Library of Ireland
- [Caledonian Mercury]
- Essay "The bishop" (1960) by Hubert Butler, appearing P.32 in "Escape from the anthill"
