About Thomas Salmon
Lived 1715 – 1759 (aged 43–44). Thomas Salmon was an anglican priest.
Thomas Salmon, DD (1715?–1759) was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.
Salmon was educated at St Paul's School, London, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1732, aged 17. He graduated B.A. in 1736, M.A. in 1739, and LL.D. in 1749. He was vicar of St Eustachius' Church, Tavistock, and Whitchurch, and was chaplain to the Duke of Bedford.
Salmon was nominated to the See of Ferns and Leighlin on 30 May 1758 and consecrated on 11 June that year. He died at Tiverton on 19 March 1759.
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Who was Thomas Salmon?
Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
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Thomas Salmon was born in 1715.
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Thomas Salmon died on 19 March 1759.
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Thomas Salmon was an anglican priest.
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