Thomas Otway (1615 – 6 March 1692) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 345. .
Otway was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Sedbergh School and later consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 29 January 1671.Cotton, Henry (1850). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 4, The Province of Connaught. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 67–78. He was translated to Ossory on 7 February 1680.Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984), Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II, New History of Ireland: Volume XI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 316–318, From 1680 until 1691 he was also Archdeacon of Armagh in commendam."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p. 46. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878. He attended the short-lived Patriot Parliament summoned by James II of England in 1689. He died on 6 March 1692 in Kilkenny.“Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 1” Cotton, H. 282: Dublin, Hodges, 1848.
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