Edward Young (bishop)
Edward Young, DD was an English Anglican priest in the Eighteenth Century:[1] his senior posts were in Ireland.[2]
Young was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] He was Chaplain to George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who appointed him to the Deanery of Clogher in 1761.[4] In 1763 he became Bishop of Dromore.[5] in 1765 he was translated to Ferns.[6]
He died in post at Ferns on 24 August 1772.[3]
References
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 348–350. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ “A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists” by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ^ a b John Venn, John Archibald Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Part 1 vol. 4 p. 492 (1922)
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. pp284 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ Atkinson, W. E. 'Dromore - An Ulster Diocese', P 69
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. pp. 341/2 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
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