Life
?1678-1744; Protestant bishop of Cashel; grandson of Sir Rich. Bolton,
Lord Chanc. of Ireland, b. Borisool, Co. Mayo; ed. TCD, schol. 1695; grad.
1698; Prebendary of Monmahenock and Stagonil, 1706; Rector of S Nicholas
Without, 1713; Chancellor of S. Patrick’s Cath, 1714; vicarage of
Finglas by faculty, 4 Dec. 1740; skilled in Canon Law, Vicar Gen. of the
diocese [of Dublin]; Bishop of Clonfert, 3 April 1724; Bishop of Elphin,
1724; Archbishop of Cashel, 1730; buried S Werburgh, 29 Feb. 1744, ‘an
honour to his Church and country, and a great improver in husbandry’
(Dublin Journal); port. in College Hall. [No DNB.]
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Notes
S. C. Hughes, The Church of S. Werburgh Dublin (1899), supplied
information [as supra] and remarks that Swift wrote without irony, ‘For
who but Lord Bolton was mitred for merit?’; further quotes a couplet
written by Swift, ranging arising from a bill regarding division of church
livings, ‘So God bless the Church, and three of our mitres, / And
God bless the Commons for biting the biters.’ (p.59-60).
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