Edmund Knox (1772 – 3 May 1849) was an absentee Irish bishop in the mid 19th century whose death at the height of the Irish Famine lead to a famously critical leading article in The Times.Thursday, May 10, 1849; pg. 5; Issue 20172; col D
He was born in 1772, the 7th and youngest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Dean of Down from 1817 "A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, F:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 to his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in 1831.Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . Translated to become Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1834Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Thursday, January 02, 1834; pg. ; Issue 6834. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II. he died in post on 3 May 1849.
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