Thomas Barnard

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The Right Reverend

Thomas Barnard

S.T.B.
Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe
ChurchChurch of Ireland
Installed22 May 1794
Term ended7 June 1806
PredecessorWilliam Cecil Pery
SuccessorCharles Mongan Warburton
Orders
Consecration20 February 1780
by Charles Agar
Personal details
Born1726 or 1728
Died7 June 1806
Wimbledon, Surrey, England
DenominationChurch of England
ParentsWilliam Barnard
Occupationclergyman
Previous post(s)Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
EducationLeeds grammar School and Westminster School
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford

Thomas Barnard (c. 1726/28–1806) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora (1780–1794) and Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1794–1806).

Born in 1726[1] or 1728,[2] he was the eldest son of Dr. William Barnard, Bishop of Raphoe (later of Derry).[1] He was educated at Westminster School, where he was admitted a King's Scholar in 1741,[1] but he almost certainly spent some time at Leeds Grammar School. Later he went up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was awarded with a Bachelor of Arts in 1756, Master of Arts in 1760 and Bachelor of Divinity in 1769.[1]

He was successively Vicar of Maghera (1751–1760),[3] Archdeacon of Derry (1760–1769),[4] and Dean of Derry (1769–1780).[5] He was nominated Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora by King George III on 29 January 1780 and consecrated bishop at the Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle on 20 February 1780.[1][6] The principal consecrator was Charles Agar, Archbishop of Cashel, and the principal co-consecrators were William Newcome, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore and Isaac Mann, Bishop of Cork and Ross.[1] Fourteen years later, he was translated to the bishopric of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe;[7] having been nominated to the see on 14 August 1794 and by letters patent on 12 September 1794.[3][6]

He was a member of the Literary Club, and well known as the friend of Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Bishop Thomas Percy, and other literary characters of his day.[2] He married Anne Browne of co. Carlow in 1758 and secondly Jane Ross-Lewin.[8]

He died in his 80th year,[9] at Wimbledon in Surrey, on 7 June 1806.[7][9]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 472.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Cooper 1885, Dictionary of National Biography, volume 3, p. 241.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 390.
  4. ^ Cotton 1849, The Province of Ulster, p. 338.
  5. ^ Cotton 1849, The Province of Ulster, p. 334.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Fryde et al. 1996, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 397.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Fryde et al. 1996, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 401.
  8. ^ "William Barnard".
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 391.

References[]

  • Cooper, Thompson (1885). "Barnard, Thomas". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  • Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Cotton, Henry (1849). The Province of Ulster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 3. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Reprinted 2003, 3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Philip Sydney Smythe
Dean of Derry
1769–1780
Succeeded by
William Cecil Pery
Preceded by
George Chinnery
Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
1780–1794
Succeeded by
William Knox
Preceded by
William Cecil Pery
Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe
1794–1806
Succeeded by
Charles Mongan Warburton
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