Ford, Alan

Bale, John (1495–1563), protestant writer and Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory, was born 21 November 1495 in the village of Cove, near Dunwich, Suffolk, England. He entered the Carmelite house at Norwich and began studying at Cambridge (probably Jesus College) in 1514, and was…

Challoner, Luke (1550–1613), Church of Ireland clergyman and vice-provost of Trinity College, Dublin, was born into a prosperous family, which had emigrated from London to Dublin late in Henry VIII's reign. All that is known of his father is that he owned property in Dublin, but…

Chappell, William (1582–1649), protestant bishop of Cork and Ross, and provost of TCD, was born 10 December 1582 at Lexington, Nottinghamshire, England, and was educated at Mansfield Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge (…

Jerome, Stephen (c.1588–c.1650), protestant minister and writer, was educated at St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1604, MA 1607), and ordained in 1609. After serving in parishes in London…

Knox, Andrew (1559–1633), Scottish cleric and Irish bishop, was born in Ranfurly, Renfrewshire, second son of John Knox. He was educated at Glasgow University, gaining his MA in 1579. As a minister in Scotland, he served at Lochwinnoch and…

Leslie, Henry (1580–1661), Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor, was born in Scotland at Leslie, Fife, the third son of James Leslie and his third wife, Agnes Somerville. He went to St Andrews University, where he obtained an MA and a…

Lyon, William (d. 1617), was the first protestant bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Little is known of his background or early life, apart from the fact that he was born in Chester. He may have gone to Oxford, though some sources claim he began his career as an innkeeper or a…

Montgomery, George (c.1569–1621), Church of Ireland bishop, was probably born in 1569 (the inscription on his gravestone states that he was 51 years old when he died in January 1621). The second son of Adam Montgomery, laird of Braidstane, Ayrshire, Scotland, he was…