词条 | Michael Cox (archbishop of Cashel) |
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A younger son of Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1703 to 1707, and his wife Mary Bourne, he was born in Cork. He was educated at Kilkenny College and Christ Church, Oxford and ordained in 1713. He became Chaplain to Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, then Rector of Calan and Chancellor of Kilkenny. In 1743 he became Bishop of Ossory;[2] and in 1754, Archbishop of Cashel.[3] He married in 1744 Anne O'Brien, daughter of James O'Brien (1695-1771) and his wife Mary Jephson, and granddaughter of William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin and his wife Mary Villiers. She died the following January, aged 22, giving birth to their only son. The marriage though short-lived is said to have been happy, and he did not remarry. He spent his last years building a magnificent mansion, Castletown Cox, in south County Kilkenny. Designed by the Sardinian-born architect Davis Ducart, it was completed in 1776. It still exists and was extensively restored in the early 2000s by its then owner George Magan, Baron Magan of Castletown. The Archbishop died in 1779, aged ninety, and was buried beside his wife in St. Canice's Cathedral. Notes1. ^“Handbook of British Chronology” By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 {{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}, 9780521563505 {{S-start}}{{S-rel|ie}}{{S-bef|before=Anthony Dopping}}{{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Ossory|years=1743–1754 }}{{S-aft|after=Edward Maurice}}{{S-bef|before=John Whitcombe}}{{S-ttl|title=Archbishop of Cashel|years=1754–1779}}{{S-aft|after=Charles Agar}}{{End}}{{Bishops of Ossory }}{{Anglican Archbishops of Cashel}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Michael}}2. ^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. pp284/5 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 3. ^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. pp21/22 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 8 : 1689 births|1779 deaths|People educated at Kilkenny College|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|18th-century Anglican bishops|Anglican bishops of Ossory|Anglican archbishops of Cashel|Members of the Irish House of Lords |
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