Joseph Peacocke (archbishop of Dublin)

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Primate of Ireland
Signed photograph of J.F. Peacocke as Bishop of Meath
ChurchChurch of Ireland
DioceseDublin
Elected19 May 1897
In office1897–1916
PredecessorWilliam Plunket
SuccessorJohn Bernard
Orders
Ordination1859
Consecration11 June 1894
by William Plunket
Personal details
Born(1835-11-05)5 November 1835
Abbeyleix, Queen's County, Ireland
Died26 May 1916(1916-05-26) (aged 80)
Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
DenominationAnglican
SpouseCaroline Sophia Irvine
Children5
Previous post(s)Bishop of Meath (1894-1897)

Joseph Ferguson Peacocke (5 November 1835 – 26 May 1916) was a

Trinity College, Dublin
.

Early life

Born at

Trinity College, Dublin, he graduated BA in 1857 with a first-class divinity testimonium. He was senior moderator in history and English literature in 1856 and won that year's Dublin University prize for political economy.[1]

Peacocke, drawn in 1908 by Philip de László

Career

Peacocke was ordained a

canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,[2] he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1883, and for a few months in 1894 he held the professorship of pastoral theology in Trinity College.[1]

In 1894, Peacocke was elected bishop of Meath,[1] where he was consecrated on 11 June 1894.[3] On 19 May 1897, he was translated to become archbishop of Dublin[3] (with which the dioceses of Glendalough and Kildare were united) and became the first archbishop of Dublin in two centuries to have served as a parish priest in the diocese. He presided successfully over his dioceses, serving also as a visiting preacher at Cambridge, until 1915, when he resigned on the grounds of ill health.[1]

Peacock died at Hastings,

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, his reputation was for "tolerance, holiness, and varied pastoral experience" and also as "a man of fine presence".[1]

Family

In 1865, Peacocke married Caroline Sophia Irvine. They had one daughter and four sons.

Gerald William Peacocke.[4]

Likeness

A portrait in oils of Peacocke by Philip de László (working sketch illustrated) was presented to him by the diocese and is now to be seen in the bishop's palace at Dublin.[1] A sketch for this is reproduced in de László's book Painting a Portrait (1937).[5]

References

  1. ^
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  2. ^ John Healy, James Bennett Keene, History of the Diocese of Meath (Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1908), vol. 2, p. 273
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-19-821745-5) p. 408
    at books.google.com
  4. ^ Bernard Burke & Ashworth Peter Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland (9th edition) (Harrison & Sons, 1899), p. 220
  5. ^ "Philip Alexius de Laszlo Most. Rev. Joseph Ferguson Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin". jssgallery.org. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
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