Euseby Cleaver (8 September 1745 – 10 December 1819) was the

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Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin The Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin was the Ordinary of Church of Ireland diocese of Ferns and Leighlin in the Province of Dublin. The diocese comprised all of counties Wexford and Carlow and part of counties Wicklow and Laois in Republic of Irel ...

(1789–1809) in Ireland and subsequently Archbishop of Dublin (1809-1819).

Life

He was of

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origin, the younger son of the Reverend William Cleaver, who ran a school at Twyford, and his wife Martha Lettice Lushden. He was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1767, M.A. in 1770, B.D. and D.D. in 1783. In 1774, he was presented to the rectory of

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, which he held till 1783, when Lord Egremont, whose tutor he had been, presented him to the rectories of

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and

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. He was briefly

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, before in 1789 being translated to Ferns and Leighlin. During the 1798 insurrection in Ireland his palace in Ferns was ransacked and Cleaver was obliged to take refuge in

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, Anglesey which was in his brother,

William Cleaver William Cleaver (1742–1815) was an English churchman and academic, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and bishop of three sees. Life He was the eldest son of the Rev. William Cleaver, who w ...

's diocese of

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, where he lived at what is now the Bishopsgate Hotel. His exercise of the Archbishopric of Dublin was cut short for reasons of alleged insanity. He appears to have favoured the use of the

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Family

He married Catherine Wynne of Hazelwood,

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, by whom he had several children, including William, Frances and Caroline; Caroline married Admiral James William King, and was the mother of the prominent evangelist Catherine Pennefather. The Archbishop's wife died on 1 May 1816. His brother

was successively

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and (1800)

bishop of Bangor The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The see is based in the city of Bangor where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Cathedral Church of Saint Deiniol Bangor Cathedral ( cy, Eglwys Gadeiriol Ban ...

References

;Attribution 1745 births 1819 deaths People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin Anglican archbishops of Dublin Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Bishops of Cork and Ross (Church of Ireland) {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub