Thomas Chester (bishop)
Thomas Chester was an Irish Anglican bishop in the penultimate decade of the sixteenth century.[1]
The son of William Chester[2] Lord Mayor of London[3] he was Bishop of Elphin[4] from 1580 until 1583.[5]
His elder brother was the first Chester baronet.[6]
References
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley" Waters, R.E.C. p10:London; Robson & sons; 1878
- J.D. Alsop, 'Chester, Sir William (c.1509–1595?), mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. That supersedes the article by C. Welch in the Old D.N.B., which contains some inaccuracies.
- Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Volume IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900
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| Preceded by Roland de Burgo |
Bishop of Elphin 1580–1583 |
Succeeded by John Lynch |
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