Richard Marlay LLD (1726 - 1802)

Born 13 Feb 1726 in Dublin, Ireland

Ancestors

Died 2 Jul 1802 at age 76 in Celbridge, Dublin, Ireland

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Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

Richard was the son of Thomas Marlay and Anne Delaune.

He was educated by Mr Darby and entered Trinity College Dublin on 31 October 1744, aged 16. B.A. 1749, M.A. 1752. ^[1]

LLD (University unknown).

He had been ordained Deacon at Dromore; and received Priest's orders at the same place, on January 5, 1750: and two days afterwards was collated to the rectory of Dromgoland in that diocese.

Dean of Ferns, and afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, by patent dated 12 November 1787, and was consecrated in the Castle Chapel, Dublin, on December 30th, by the Archbishop of Tuam, assisted by the Bishops of Ossory and Killaloe.

He became Bishop of Waterford and Lismore , by patent dated 21 March 1795. [Lib. Mun.Hib.] He was an accomplished scholar, and of most engaging manners. [Mant's History.]

He died at Celbridge, near Dublin, on July 1, 1802.

He settled half of his estate on his nephew Henry William Grattan, the son of his sister Mary and James Grattan M.P.

The other half of his estate he settled on James Cuffe (1st Baron Tyrawley). He was the husband of his niece Mary, the daughter of his sister Alice and Richard Levinge.

Sources

1. ↑ FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.

• The Peerage of Ireland P304 [1789]
• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 1 - The Province of Munster, Pg 133
• Vol 3. - The Province of Ulster. Pg 352
• Vol 4 - The Province of Connaught, Pg 173
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1912

• Wikipedia - Richard Marlay