Life
?1748-1823; ed. St. Omer, France; became Protestant; navy chaplain; wrote
in Whig periodicals; chaplain and private sec. to Duke of Portland while
Viceroy in Ireland, 1782; mooted notion of a state pension for Catholic
clergy, 1782; retired to Aubigny, 1783-85; chaplain to Lord Fitzwilliam,
Viceroy, 1794; Bishop of Ossory, 1795; Bishop of Meath, 1798; controversial
tracts and pamphlets. ODNB
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References
Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre (Tralee: The Kerryman 1946), cites a comedy The Generous
Impostor (DL 22 Nov. 1780) published 1781, after Destouches’s Le Dissipateur.
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