Simon Digby was an Irish Anglican

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at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the son of

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and attended

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. After a short spell as

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in 1678–1679, he was nominated

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on 24 January 1679 and

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on 23 March that year. He was summoned to attend the short-lived

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called by

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in 1689. In 1690 he was

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Elphin Elphin may refer to: Places Canada * Elphin, Ontario, a hamlet in North Sherbrooke, Lanark County Ireland * Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland * Diocese of Elphin, a diocese in Ireland * Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin Scotland * Elphin, Highl ...

, being nominated on 4 December and appointed by

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on 12 January the following year."Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton,H Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 He died in office on 7 April 1720.

References

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