Lord John Beresford
Primate of All Ireland | |
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Church | Church of Ireland |
See | Armagh |
Appointed | 17 June 1822 |
In office | 1822–1862 |
Predecessor | William Stuart |
Successor | Marcus Beresford |
Orders | |
Ordination | 17 December 1797 by William Beresford |
Consecration | 29 March 1805 by Charles Brodrick |
Personal details | |
Born | Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland | 22 November 1773
Died | 18 July 1862 Woburn, Bedfordshire, England | (aged 88)
Buried | St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh |
Denomination | Anglican |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of Cork and Ross (1805-1807) Bishop of Raphoe (1807-1819) Bishop of Clogher (1819-1820) Archbishop of Dublin (1820-1822) |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Lord John George de la Poer Beresford PC (Ire) (22 November 1773 – 18 July 1862)[1] was an Anglican archbishop and Primate.
Background
Born at
Career
Beresford was ordained a priest in 1797 and began his ecclesiastical career with
Restoration of St Patrick's Cathedral
Beresford employed Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, one of the most skilled architects at that time, to restore Armagh's St Patrick's Cathedral. Cottingham removed the old stunted spire and shored up the belfry stages while he re-built the piers and arches under it. The arcade walls which had fallen away as much as 21 inches from the perpendicular on the south side and 7 inches on the North side, were straightened by means of heated irons, and the clerestory windows which had long been concealed, were opened out, and filled with tracery.[citation needed]
Beresford is unsympathetically represented by
Beresford died at Woburn, the home of his niece,[6] in the parish of Donaghadee.[2] There is a memorial to him in the south aisle at St Patrick's.[7] His immediate successor as Archbishop was his first cousin once removed.
References
- ^ National Archives
- ^ a b Arthur H. Grant, ‘Beresford, Lord John George de la Poer (1773–1862)’, rev. Kenneth Milne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 10 Aug 2015
- ^ a b c d e f g Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London, UK: Whitaker and Co. p. 92.
- ^ " A Compendium of Irish Biography." Webb, A. (Dublin: M. H. Gill & son. 1878)
- ^ Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. pp 22/3: Enniskille; R. H. Ritchie; 1929
- ^ Donaghadee Parish
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