Thomas O'Beirne

The Right Reverend Thomas Lewis O'Beirne (1749 – 17 February 1823), was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Ossory from 1795 to 1798^[1] when he was translated to Meath.^[2]

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.^[3] His ecclesiastical career began with a college living at Grendon, Northamptonshire following which he was a naval chaplain. After this he was Vicar of West Deeping and then Chaplain and Secretary to the Duke of Portland. Returning to his native Ireland he became the incumbent at Templemichael, from which post he ascended to the Episcopate.^[4]

He died on 17 February 1823.

^ “Handbook of British Chronology” By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 052156350X, 9780521563505
^ Genealogical Web site
^ O'Beirne, Thomas Lewis in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
^ ‘O’Beirne , Thomas Lewis (1749–1823)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Davenport-Hines,R. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) ISBN 019861411X

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by William Beresford	Bishop of Ossory 1795–1798	Succeeded by Hugh Hamilton
Preceded by Henry Maxwell	Bishop of Meath 1798 –1823	Succeeded by Nathaniel Alexander

Bishops of Ossory

Christopher Gaffney • John Horsfall • Richard Deane • Jonas Wheeler • Griffith Williams • John Parry • Benjamin Parry • Michael Ward Thomas Otway • John Hartstonge • Thomas Vesey • Edward Tennison • Charles Este • Anthony Dopping • Michael Cox • Edward Maurice • Richard Pococke • Charles Dodgson • William Newcome • John Hotham • William Beresford • Thomas O'Beirne • Hugh Hamilton • John Kearney • Robert Fowler