Jeremiah Marsh was Dean of Kilmore[1] from 1700[2] to 1734.[3]
He was the son of Francis Marsh, Archbishop of Dublin from 1682 to 1693,[4] and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was instituted Dean on 24 December 1700. He also held the Treasurership of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Despite the strong recommendation of William King, Archbishop of Dublin he never became a bishop.[5] He died on 3 June 1734 and was buried at St. Peter, Dublin.
References
- ^ Cumberland, Richard; Maxwell, John (1727). A Treatise of the Laws of Nature. R. Phillips.
- ^ A New History of Ireland Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J.; Cosgrove, A.: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ^ "Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ Alexander Gordon, "Marsh, Francis (1627–1693)", rev. Elizabethanne Boran, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 Jan 2014
- ^ "He is a grave sober discreet man and would make a good bishop" quoted in The British Magazine and Monthly Register Volume 20 London 1841 p384
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