Benjamin Plunket

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Benjamin John Plunket was a 20th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Plunket was the son of

Phibsboro.[7] He was then Rector of Aghade with Ardoyne[8] and subsequently Vicar of St Ann's, Dublin.[9] In 1913 he became Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry,[10] and in 1919 was translated to Bishop of Meath. He retired in 1925,[11] and died on 26 January 1947.[12]

The

Virgin Mary and the saints. The modified form of the Declaration was widely opposed, but Plunket was the principal promoter of a petition to the House of Commons in support of it, signed by over 3,000 representative Irish Protestants. On another occasion, he was one of three Church of Ireland bishops who, with eighteen Catholic bishops, signed a controversial anti-partition manifesto issued before the Longford by-election of May 1917; the manifesto was a significant factor in Sinn Féin's narrow victory in the by-election. Plunket was also an Irish language enthusiast, encouraging Irish in Church of Ireland schools and hymns in Irish at church services. In 1925, while still Bishop of Meath, he was severely criticised by W. B. Yeats in the latter's famous speech in the Senate on divorce. Plunket's uncompromising approach to sexual morality and the indissolubility of marriage had, as Yeats saw it, given succour to those intent on passing legislation which the Protestant minority would find oppressive. Shortly afterwards, he resigned as Bishop of Meath on health grounds when aged 55.[13]

He was left the St. Anne's Park estate in Raheny in Dublin, formerly the residence of his uncle

St. Paul's College, Raheny
.

In 1900 he married Dorothea Hester Butler (1874-1936), the daughter of Sir Thomas Butler, 10th Bt. Their daughter Olive married Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam in 1933.

References

  1. ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  2. ^ thePeerage.com
  3. ^ Bishop Plunket, Yeats and JFK www.nli.ie
  4. ^ "Plunket, the Hon. Benjamin John (PLNT889BJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  6. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  7. ^ Church web-site (1) Archived 10 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1019.
  9. ^ Church website (2)
  10. ^ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of Tuam". The Times. No. 40183. 11 April 1913. p. 4; col F.
  11. ^ "Ecclesiastical News". The Times. No. 44157. 31 December 1925. p. 13; col D.
  12. ^ "Obituary Bishop B. J. Plunket Protestantism In Ireland". The Times. No. 50670. 28 January 1947. p. 7; col E.
  13. ^ https://blog.nli.ie/index.php/2011/10/19/bishop-plunket-yeats-and-jfk/ accessed 14Sept 2016

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Religious titles
Preceded by Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry
1913 – 1919 		Succeeded by
Arthur Edwin Ross
Preceded by
James Bennett Keene
 Bishop of Meath
1919 – 1925 		Succeeded by
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