John Worth (priest)

John Worth, B.D. (1648-1688) was an Irish Anglican Dean.[1]

The son of Bishop Edward Worth,[2] and Susannah Pepper, daughter of Denis Pepper, a cousin of the Earl of Cork, and brother of the noted judge William Worth, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] He was appointed a prebendary of Killaloe in 1670;[4] Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1671;[5] Dean of Kildare in 1675;[6] and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1678.[7] He died on 12 April 1688.[8]

Religious differences played a large part in his own early life. His father was a Protestant of strongly Puritan leanings, with no sympathy for either Baptists or Quakers. His mother on the other hand was a Quaker who was arrested in 1664 for publicly attending Quaker meetings. This caused a breach between the couple which was never healed: in his last will his father urged his mother to repent for her unorthodox beliefs.

His wife's first name was Comfort: they had ten children. Only two are known to have survived into adulthood, Michael and Edward Worth (1678-1733), the noted physician and book collector.

Notes
  1. "The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick Near Dublin, from it Foundation in 1190, to the Year 1819: Comprising a Topographical Account of the Lands and Parishes Appropriated to the Community of the Cathedral, and to Its Members, and Biographical Memoirs of Its Deans" Mason, W.M. p212:Dublin, W.Folds, 1820
  2. Ware, Sir James (1739). The whole works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, Volume 1. p. 596.
  3. "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p895: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p492 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p118 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  6. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p238 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  7. Cathedral web-site
  8. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. pp103/4 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878


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