Robert Fowler (bishop of Ossory)

Robert Fowler was an Anglican bishop in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries.[1]

Fowler was educated at Westminster[2] and Christ Church, Oxford.[3] He was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1793 to 1794;[4] Rector of Urney[5] and Archdeacon of Dublin from 1794 until 1813; Bishop of Ossory[6] from 1813 to 1835;[7] and then the inaugural Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin[8] from 1835 until his death aged 75 on 31 December 1841.[9]

He was the son of Archbishop Robert Fowler of Dublin.[10]

Notes
  1. Peers & Gentry
  2. thePeerage.com
  3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Fowler, Robert (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. Cathedral web-site
  5. Church of Ireland Rectors
  6. "A New History of Ireland "Moody,T.M; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton,H. p290 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  8. National Library of Ireland
  9. Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, 8 January 1842; Issue 19033
  10. Essay "The bishop" (1960) by Hubert Butler, appearing P.32 in "Escape from the anthill"


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