William_Thompson_(archdeacon_of_Cork)

William Thompson (archdeacon of Cork)

William Thompson (archdeacon of Cork)

Archdeacon of Cork

William Thompson (1766[1]–1833) was Archdeacon of Cork[2] from 1800 until his death.[3]

Thompson was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[4] He was the incumbent at St Peter, Cork.

He married Mary Chetwode, daughter of the Reverend John Chetwode of Glanmire, County Cork and Elizabeth Hamilton, and sister of the writer Anna Maria Chetwode. They had at least one daughter, Lucy. She married the Reverend John Fitzgerald Day of Beaufort, County Kerry. John was the natural son of Mr Justice Robert Day of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) and his companion (later his second wife) Mary Fitzgerald of Bandon, County Cork. Lucy and John's daughter Anna married as his second wife Charles Towry-Law, 3rd Baron Ellenborough.[5][6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" Brady, W.M. p186: London; Longmans; 1864
  2. [2]
    NLI
  3. [3]
    "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p254 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  4. [4]
    "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p810: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  5. [5]
    Killarney Sketches, Fitz-Erin (ed. and rev. by J. A. Murphy, 2011), George Herbert, 1862, pp. 3, 71
  6. [6]
    Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1307


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