Robert Daly (bishop)

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Robert Daly (10 June 1783 – 16 February 1872) was Church of Ireland Bishop of Cashel and Waterford from 1843 to 1872.[1]

Life

Daly was born at Dunsandle Castle,

Protestant faith to ensure legal title on their lands. By 1800, the family were among the largest landowners in Ireland and dictated the mayoralty of Galway for some sixty years. His mother was Lady Henrietta Maxwell, only daughter of Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham and Henrietta Cantillon, widow of the 3rd Earl of Strafford
.

Daly graduated with a B.A. from

Evangelical
section of the church, the subject at the centre of most of his publications, which numbered over twenty-two between 1815 and his death.

Daly was passionate in his support of anti-Catholic

priests, endured to the end of his life, although he must have known that his own family had originally been Catholics. He was one of the founders in 1818 of the controversial Irish Society for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish through the Medium of Their Own Language.[1]

Daly also supported the setting up of Church Education Society in 1839 countering the setting up of the National School system in Ireland.

He was appointed

Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1842; and Bishop of Cashel and Waterford
in 1843 and was serving in that capacity when he died in 1872.

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Bishop Robert Daly: Ireland's "Protestant pope" by Eugene Broderick, History Ireland.
  2. Thomas Ulick Sadleir
    p208: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935

References

  • Memoir of Right Rev. Robert Daly, D.D., Lord Bishop of Cashel, 1875
  • Galway Authors, Helen Mahar, 1976.
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