Richard Bourne was an

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during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Bourne was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

. He was appointed

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of Monmohenock at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1707. He was

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from 1810 to 1813; and

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Armagh Armagh ( ; , , " Macha's height") is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Primates of All ...

from 1813 until his death in 1817.Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae
The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p41 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878

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