Life
?-1556; archbishop of Dublin; chief instrument of English Reformation in Ireland; provincial of Austin Friars, 1534; archbishop of Dublin, 1536; VIII’s eccles. Supremacy, and obtained first fruits of Irish abbeys for the king; travelled widely in Ireland; hated by clergy and Irish council;
suffered disfavour; introduced first English prayerbook to Ireland, 1550; patent primate of Ireland, deprived at accession of Queen Mary and deposed as married man. ODNB
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