Francis Gough

Francis Gough, J.P.[1] (1594-1634) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland[2] during the first half of the Seventeenth century.[3]

Gough was born in Wiltshire and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[4] He was appointed Chancellor of Limerick in 1618;[5] and consecrated Bishop of Limerick in 1626.[6] He died on died 29 August 1634.[7]

Notes
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  2. Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Volume 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Volume 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
  4. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
  5. 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)
  6. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  7. "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire" Burke, J.B. p446: London, Henry Colburn, 1845


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