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John Kearney (bishop)

Irish academic and bishop

Summary

Irish academic and bishop

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Right Reverend
name	John Kearney
image	John Kearney.jpg
caption	Portrait by William Cuming, c. 1810.
order	23rd
office	Provost of Trinity College Dublin
term_start	30 July 1799
term_end	19 January 1806
predecessor	Richard Murray
successor	George Hall
birth_date
birth_place	Dublin, Ireland
death_date
death_place	Kilkenny, Ireland
resting_place	Trinity College Chapel
alma_mater	Trinity College Dublin

| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend |}} John Kearney, D.D. (10 August 1744 – 22 May 1813) was an Irish academic and bishop who served as the 23rd Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1799 to 1806. He was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory from 1806 to 1813.

Early life

Kearney was born in Dublin in 1744, the son of a barber-surgeon, and the younger brother of Michael Kearney.

Kearney was elected a Scholar of Trinity College Dublin in 1760 and a Fellow in 1764.

Academic career

He held the Chair of Oratory from 1781 until his appointment as Provost in July 1799.

Kearney was nominated Bishop of Ossory on 4 January and appointed by letters patent on 20 January 1806. He was consecrated at Trinity College Chapel on 2 February 1806, by Charles Agar, Archbishop of Dublin, assisted by Charles Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare and Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Down and Connor. His replacement as Provost was George Hall. That year, Kearney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1806.

Kearney died in office in Kilkenny on 22 May 1813.

References

McDowell, R. B.. "Kearney, John (1744–1813), provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and bishop of Ossory".
Fryde, E. B.. (1986). "Handbook of British Chronology". Cambridge University Press.
[http://www.tcd.ie/provost/history/former-provosts/j_kearney.php John Kearney]. ''Trinity College Website'', Retrieved on 13 September 2009.
Carter, Philip. "Hall, George (bap. 1753, d. 1811)".
(February 2020). "Library and Archive Catalogue". The Royal Society.
Cotton, Henry. (1848). "The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland". Hodges and Smith.

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