William Fitzgerald (Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh) explained

William Fitzgerald was an Anglican bishop in Ireland at the end of the 17th-century and the beginning of the 18th.^[1]

Fitzgerald had previously been Archdeacon of Ross, Ireland then Dean of Cloyne from 1671 to 1791 when he was nominated for the See of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 9 December 1690.^[2] He was consecrated on 26 July 1691 and died in 1722.

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. Book: Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and ..., Volume 1 By Henry Cotton . 261. 2014-12-29.