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Marmaduke Middleton
English-Irish bishop (died 1593)
Marmaduke Middleton (died 1593) was an English bishop.
He was educated at the University of Oxford, but left before graduating.[1] He was vicar of Coolock and Dunboyne, in Ireland, and then rector of Killare, County Meath.[2] In 1579 he became bishop of Waterford and Lismore, in the Church of Ireland. In office during the Desmond Rebellions, he complained of the strong Catholic and rebel feeling in Waterford,[3][4] and the attitude of the Mayor Patrick Walsh.[5][6]
In 1582 he was translated, becoming bishop of St Davids in Wales.[7] He was attacked by Lewis Gunter, who made many accusations against him.[8] He then faced charges in the Court of High Commission, including forgery of a will.[9] He was deprived of his see in 1593, dying shortly afterwards.
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- Walker, David. "Middleton, Marmaduke". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18678. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Patrick Rafroidi, Barbara Hayley, Christopher Murray, Ireland and France, a Bountiful Friendship: Literature, History, and Ideas (2002), p. 10.
- Natalie Mears, Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms (2005), p. 242.
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| Preceded by | Bishop of St David's 1582–1592 |
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