About Thomas O'Beirne
Lived 1749 – 1823 (aged 73–74). Thomas O'Beirne was an anglican priest.
Thomas Lewis O'Beirne (174917February 1823) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Ossory from 1795 to 1798 when he was translated to Meath.
Life Born in 1749, the eldest son of a Roman Catholic farmer, he was educated at the Catholic College of St Omer before converting to Anglicanism. Ordained a priest in 1773, he was entered on the books of Trinity College, Cambridge as a ten-year man the same year.
His ecclesiastical career began with a college living at Grendon, Northamptonshire 1774–1776, following which he was a naval chaplain under Admiral Howe in 1776. Later he was Vicar of West Deeping 1779-1783 and chaplain and private secretary to the Duke of Portland 1782–1783. He became Anglican bishop of Ossory in 1795, and in 1798 was transferred to the see of Meath.
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Thomas O'Beirne died on 17 February 1823.
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Thomas O'Beirne was an anglican priest.
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