John Kearney (bishop)

John Kearney, D.D. (10 August 1744 – 22 May 1813) was an Irish academic and bishop who served as the 23rd Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1799 to 1806. He was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory from 1806 to 1813.^[2]^[3]

Early life

Kearney was born in Dublin in 1744, the son of a barber-surgeon, and the younger brother of Michael Kearney.^[2]

Kearney was elected a Scholar of Trinity College Dublin in 1760 and a Fellow in 1764.

Academic career

He held the Chair of Oratory from 1781 until his appointment as Provost in July 1799.^[1]

Kearney was nominated Bishop of Ossory on 4 January and appointed by letters patent on 20 January 1806. He was consecrated at Trinity College Chapel on 2 February 1806, by Charles Agar, Archbishop of Dublin, assisted by Charles Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare and Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Down and Connor. His replacement as Provost was George Hall.^[4] That year, Kearney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1806.^[5]

Kearney died in office in Kilkenny on 22 May 1813.^[6]

References

1 2John Kearney. Trinity College Website, Retrieved on 13 September 2009.
1 2McDowell, R. B. "Kearney, John (1744–1813), provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and bishop of Ossory". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15212.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
↑Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 404. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
↑Carter, Philip. "Hall, George (bap. 1753, d. 1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11958.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
↑ 「図書館およびアーカイブ目録」。王立協会。 2010年11月5日取得。
↑コットン、ヘンリー (1848)。アイルランドの聖職者および大聖堂団体のメンバーの継承。Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae。第2 巻、レンスター州。ダブリン: ホッジス・アンド・スミス。p. 290。

[TCD-1] 1 2John Kearney. Trinity College Website, Retrieved on 13 September 2009.

[ODNB-2] 1 2McDowell, R. B. "Kearney, John (1744–1813), provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and bishop of Ossory". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15212.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

[HBOBC-3] Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 404. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

[4] Carter, Philip. "Hall, George (bap. 1753, d. 1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11958.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

[5] 「図書館およびアーカイブ目録」。王立協会。 2010年11月5日取得。

[fastihibvol2-6] コットン、ヘンリー (1848)。アイルランドの聖職者および大聖堂団体のメンバーの継承。Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae。第2 巻、レンスター州。ダブリン: ホッジス・アンド・スミス。p. 290。

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