Joshua Brooksbank
Joshua Brooksbank (22 March 1642 – 5 February 1692) was a Church of Ireland priest in Ireland during the late seventeenth century.[1]
Brooksbank was born at Eccleshill, West Yorkshire and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.[2] He graduated BA in 1664 and MA in 1667. He was ordained deacon by Matthew Wren the Bishop of Ely on 22 September 1664; and priest by William Fuller the Bishop of Lincoln on 12 March 1867. He was Precentor of Limerick Cathedral from 1689 until 1690;[3] and Dean of Clonfert from 1670 until his death.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 0713642556
- ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p229
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p399 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p179 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
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