Charles Congreve
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Charles Walter Congreve was Archdeacon of Armagh from 1738 until his death in 1777.[1]
Congreve was born at Stretton, South Staffordshire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.[2] He was Vicar general of the diocese from 1746.[3] In 1746 he published An absolute, indefeasible, hereditary right contrary to reason and Scripture, on 1 Chron 5:1–5:2.[4] He was buried in Westminster Abbey.[5]
Notes
- ^ Cotton, Henry, Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3, p. 47. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Congreve, Charles (Walter)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ James B Leslie. "Armagh clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, &c (page 8 of 62)". ebooksread.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ Cooke, John (1783). The Preacher's Assistant (after the Manner of Mr. Letsome) Containing a Series of the Texts of Sermons and Discourses ... editor. p. 87.
- ^ "Charles Walter Congreve". Westminster Abbey.
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Archdeacons of Armagh
- Luke Netterville
- Laurence
- Bertram
- Brice
- Nicholas de Mellipont
- William Morice
- Maurice Sweetman
- Richard Moore
- William Pieroun
- Roger Stedman
- William Somerville
- Richard Rowe
- John Prene
- John White
- Thomas Waryn
- James White
- Cormac Roth
- Thomas Leverous
- Gerald Renaldi
- Christopher Ussher
- Luke Ussher
- William Fullarton
- Thomas Vesey
- John Vesey
- William Smith
- Michael Ward
- Thomas Otway
- Edmund Arwaker
- John Travers
- Michael Heweton
- William Hamilton
- Charles Este
- Henry Jenny
- Charles Congreve
- Arthur Jacob
- John Freind
- William Sturrock
- Charles Knox
- Edward Stopford
- John Stokes
- Robert Dixon
- William Edward Meade
- Charles King Irwin
- Edward Meade
- Waller Hobson
- Charles King Irwin (son)
- Lockett Ford
- John Crooks
- Frederick Gowing
- Bill Colthurst
- Raymond Hoey
- Terry Scott
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