Thomas Chester (bishop) explained
Thomas Chester was an Irish Anglican bishop in the penultimate decade of the sixteenth century (1580s).[1] The son of William Chester[2] Lord Mayor of London,[3] he was Bishop of Elphin[4] from 1580 until 1583.[5] His elder brother was the first Chester baronet.[6]
Notes and References
- Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X .
- "Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley" Waters, R.E.C. p10:London; Robson & sons; 1878
- J.D. Alsop, 'Chester, Sir William (c.1509–1595?), mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. That supersedes the article by C. Welch in the Old D.N.B., which contains some inaccuracies.
- Book: Cotton, Henry . Henry Cotton (divine)
. Henry Cotton (divine) . The Province of Connaught . Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland . 4 . 1850 . Hodges and Smith . Dublin .
- Book: Moody . T. W. . Martin . F. X. . Byrne . F. J. . Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II . 1984 . Oxford University Press . A New History of Ireland . IX . Oxford . 0-19-821745-5 .
- https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092524374#page/n161/mode/2up George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900