John Caulfeild (priest)

John Caulfeild (1738–1816)[1] was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the second half of the 18th-century and the first decades of the 19th.[2]

Caulfield was born in Inverness, the son of Colonel William Caulfeild, a nephew of William Caulfeild, 2nd Viscount Charlemont, and Catherine Moore. He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.[3] He held livings at Castlerahan and Kilashee. He was Archdeacon of Kilmore[4] from 1776 until 1810.[5]

He married Euphemia Gordon and had 3 sons. One son was James Caulfeild (1782–1852), Army officer, Indian administrator, and MP.[6]

References
  1. Caulfeild Family Web-site
  2. 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
  3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Caulfeild, John" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. NUI Galway
  5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p177 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  6. Jewers, Arthur. Heraldic church notes from Cornwall. p. 116.


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