Gilbert Ironside the elder
Gilbert Ironside | |
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Bishop of Bristol | |
Diocese | Diocese of Bristol |
In office | 1660–1671 |
Predecessor | Thomas Howell (vacant since 1646) |
Successor | Guy Carleton |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 19 September 1671 | (aged 82)
Buried | Bristol Cathedral[1] |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglican |
Spouse | (1) Elizabeth Frenchman (2) Alice Glisson[1] |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Oxford |
Gilbert Ironside the elder (1588–1671) was Bishop of Bristol.
Life
He was elder son of Ralph Ironside, rector of
Gilbert Ironside matriculated at
Either by marriage or other means he amassed a large fortune before the
At Bristol, Ironside showed forbearance to nonconforming ministers. Edmund Calamy gives particulars of a long conference between him and John Westley, grandfather of John Wesley. Ironside died on 19 September 1671, and was buried in his cathedral without any memorial, near the steps of the bishop's throne.[3]
Works
He was the author of Seven Questions of the Sabbath briefly disputed, Oxford, 1637[5]
Family
He married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Frenchman of East Compton, Dorsetshire, and (2) Alice, daughter of William Glisson of Marnhull, Dorsetshire. By his first wife he was father of four sons, of whom Gilbert Ironside the younger was the third.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b c Venables, Edmund (1892). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Pedigree of Ironside in the Counties of Durham and Dorset, compiled 1787 by George Harrison, Norroy King of Arms, and Benjamin Pingo, York Herald. There are slightly different versions of this pedigree, in Surtees' History of County Durham and Hutchins' History of Dorset.
- ^ a b c d e Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 8, 1996, pp. 9–15
- ^ Watt, Robert (1824). Bibliotheca Britannica ; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature: Authors. Iban-Zypœ. Archibald Constable, Edinburgh.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ironside, Gilbert (1588-1671)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.