Edward Edgeworth, D.D. (died 1595) was an

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in the last decade of the sixteenth century. An Englishman, probably from

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, north London, he was

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before coming over to Ireland, probably in the early 1560s. He was appointed a

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of St Michan in St Patrick's Cathedral in 1586; and later that year of Tipperkevin in Christ Church Cathedral in the same city."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p181 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 1n 1590 he became Vicar of

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and in 1593,

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. He died two years later. He amassed a considerable fortune, which he left to his brother Francis, who was appointed joint

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in Ireland in about 1606 and held the office until about 1620. Francis founded a gifted Irish dynasty whose most notable members were

Richard Lovell Edgeworth Richard Lovell Edgeworth (31 May 1744 – 13 June 1817) was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor. He had 22 children. Biography Edgeworth was born in Pierrepont Street, Bath, England, son of Richard Edgeworth senior, and great ...

and his daughter, the novelist

Maria Edgeworth Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel i ...

. The family gave its name to

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16th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Down and Connor People of Elizabethan Ireland People from East Lindsey District 1595 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub