Robert Fowler was an Anglican

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in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries. Fowler was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford. He was

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from 1793 to 1794;

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of Urney and

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from 1794 until 1813;

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from 1813 to 1835; and then the inaugural

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from 1835 until his death aged 75 on 31 December 1841. He was the son of Archbishop Robert Fowler of Dublin.Essay "The bishop" (1960) by Hubert Butler, appearing P.32 in "Escape from the anthill"

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1766 births 1841 deaths Archdeacons of Dublin Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin Anglican bishops of Ossory Bishops of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub