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Richard Boyle (bishop of Ferns and Leighlin)

Richard Boyle (bishop of Ferns and Leighlin)

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Richard Boyle D.D. was an Anglican bishop in the early seventeenth century.[1]

He was appointed Dean of Limerick in 1661, and Treasurer in 1663.[2] In 1666 he was appointed Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin.[3]

He died in 1682 and is buried at St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 0713642556
  2. [2]
    "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  3. [3]
    "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. pp337/8 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  4. [4]
    " The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow " Ryan, J.: Dublin; Richard Moore;1833
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