Robert Fowler was an Anglican bishop in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries.Peers & Gentry
Fowler was educated at WestminsterthePeerage.com and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1793 to 1794;Cathedral web-site Rector of UrneyChurch of Ireland Rectors and Archdeacon of Dublin from 1794 until 1813; Bishop of Ossory"A New History of Ireland "Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 from 1813 to 1835;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p290 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 and then the inaugural Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and LeighlinNational Library of Ireland from 1835 until his death aged 75 on 31 December 1841.Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, 8 January 1842; Issue 19033
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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