Edmund Knox
Politician
1772 – 1849
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Who was Edmund Knox?
Edmund Knox was an absentee Irish Bishop in the mid 19th century whose death at the height of the Irish Famine lead to a famously critical leading article in The Times
He was born in 1772, the 7th and youngest son of Thomas, 1st Viscount Northland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Dean of Down from 1817 to his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in 1831.Translated to Limerick in 1834 he died in post on 3 May 1849.
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