Dive Downes
Dive Downes (b Thornby, Northamptonshire 1652 – d Dublin 1709) was Bishop of Cork and Ross from 1699 to 1709.[1]
Downes was born in Northamptonshire, son of the Reverend Lewis Downes. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was ordained in 1678.[3] In 1683 he became a prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin[4] and in 1690 Archdeacon of Dublin.[5]
He was married four times. He married firstly Sarah Dodwell, secondly Anne Carleton, and thirdly Elizabeth Becher, widow of Horatio Townshend. By his fourth wife Catherine FitzGerald, daughter of the Hon Robert FitzGerald and Mary Clotworthy, and sister of Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare, he had a son Robert Downes MP, of Donnybrook Castle, and a daughter Anne. Robert was the father of William Downes, 1st Baron Downes, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Anne was the grandmother of Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes.
He was a conscientious bishop, and in 1699-1700 he visited every parish in his diocese: his "Visitation of Cork" has survived.[6]
References
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 385–386. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)Burtchaell,G.D/Sadlier,T.U p241: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p351 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p149 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p130 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ An Irishman's Diary "Irish Times" 31/07/2012
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