Joseph Story (bishop)

Joseph Story DD was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Story was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was appointed Chaplain to the Irish House of Commons in 1731[3] and Dean of Ferns in 1734.[4] He was appointed to the episcopate at Bishop of Killaloe in 1740[5] and translated to Kilmore in 1742.[6] He died on 22 September 1757.[7]

References
  1. NUI Galway
  2. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p788: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. 'Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, Volumes 1–11' p125: Dublin, Abraham Bradley, 1763
  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p351 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  5. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361 ISBN 0-521-56350-X
  6. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p169 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878


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