About Thomas Carson
Lived 1805 – 1874 (aged 68). Thomas Carson was an anglican priest.
Thomas Carson, LLD (27 August 1805 – 7 July 1874) was a 19th-century Irish Anglican Bishop.
Carson was born in County Monaghan and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He held incumbencies at Urney, Cavan and then Cloon. Next he was Archdeacon of Ardagh, and after that Vicar general and then Dean of Kilmore in 1860 before elevation in 1870 to the episcopate as the 5th bishop of the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. He married Eleanor Anne Burton in about 1833, and their son Rev. Thomas William Carson (20 Dec 1834 -1895) was a noted early collector of bookplates.
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Irish bishop (1805–1874)
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Thomas Carson was born on 27 August 1805.
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Thomas Carson died on 7 July 1874.
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Thomas Carson was an anglican priest.
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