Bartholomew Vigors

Bartholomew Vigors (1644–1721) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.[1]

He was the fourth son of the Reverend Urban Vigors of Ardnageehy, County Cork, and his wife Catherine Boyle, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Boyle. They belonged to a branch of the prominent landowning family of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow. Vigors was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was Chancellor of Ferns then Dean of Armagh from 1681 until 1691;[3] and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin from then[4] until his death on 3 January 1721.[5]

Having purchased the manor of Old Leighlin in County Carlow from Joseph Deane, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, in his will he bequeathed it to his successors as Bishop in perpetuity, in addition to numerous other charitable bequests. He was buried at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.[6]

He married Martha Neale, daughter of Constantine Neale of New Ross, County Wexford. They had at least six children, including Martha who married Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet of Dunmore, Susanna who married St. Leger Gilbert (brother of the Countess of Cavan), and Katherine who married John Beauchamp.

References
  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  2. "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p841: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p33 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  4. "A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p338 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  6. Ryan, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow. p. 267.
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