Thomas Barnard

Thomas Barnard (c. 1726/28–1806) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora (1780–1794) and Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1794–1806).

For other people named Thomas Barnard, see Thomas Barnard (disambiguation).

The Right Reverend Thomas Barnard S.T.B.
Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe
Church	Church of Ireland
Installed	22 May 1794
Term ended	7 June 1806
Predecessor	William Cecil Pery
Successor	Charles Mongan Warburton
Orders
Consecration	20 February 1780 by Charles Agar
Personal details
Born	1726 or 1728
Died	7 June 1806 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
Denomination	Church of England
Parents	William Barnard
Occupation	clergyman
Previous post	Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
Education	Leeds grammar School and Westminster School
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Born in 1726[1] or 1728,[2] he was the eldest son of Dr. William Barnard, Bishop of Raphoe (later of Derry).[1] He was educated at Westminster School, where he was admitted a King's Scholar in 1741,[1] but he almost certainly spent some time at Leeds Grammar School. Later he went up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was awarded with a Bachelor of Arts in 1756, Master of Arts in 1760 and Bachelor of Divinity in 1769.[1]

He was successively Vicar of Maghera (1751–1760),[3] Archdeacon of Derry (1760–1769),[4] and Dean of Derry (1769–1780).[5] He was nominated Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora by King George III on 29 January 1780 and consecrated bishop at the Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle on 20 February 1780.[1][6] The principal consecrator was Charles Agar, Archbishop of Cashel, and the principal co-consecrators were William Newcome, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore and Isaac Mann, Bishop of Cork and Ross.[1] Fourteen years later, he was translated to the bishopric of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe;[7] having been nominated to the see on 14 August 1794 and by letters patent on 12 September 1794.[3][6]

He was a member of the Literary Club, and well known as the friend of Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Bishop Thomas Percy, and other literary characters of his day.[2] He married Anne Browne of co. Carlow in 1758 and secondly Jane Ross-Lewin.[8]

He died in his 80th year,[9] at Wimbledon in Surrey, on 7 June 1806.[7][9]

Notes

1. Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 472.
2. Cooper 1885, Dictionary of National Biography, volume 3, p. 241.
3. Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 390.
4. Cotton 1849, The Province of Ulster, p. 338.
5. Cotton 1849, The Province of Ulster, p. 334.
6. Fryde et al. 1996, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 397.
7. Fryde et al. 1996, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 401.
8. https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/william-barnard
9. Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 391.

References

• Cooper, Thompson (1885). "Barnard, Thomas". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Cotton, Henry (1849). The Province of Ulster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 3. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Reprinted 2003, 3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Philip Sydney Smythe	Dean of Derry 1769–1780	Succeeded by William Cecil Pery
Preceded by George Chinnery	Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1780–1794	Succeeded by William Knox
Preceded by William Cecil Pery	Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1794–1806	Succeeded by Charles Mongan Warburton