Robert Humpston (bishop)

Robert Humpsdon, D.D. was an Anglican bishop in the early seventeenth century.[1]

An Englishman, he was Rector of Barton, Cheshire before coming over to Ireland.[2] He was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor in 1602 and served for four years, prior to his death in late 1606.[3]

References
  1. Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 0713642556
  2. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. pp 204/5 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  3. Evans, Mihail D. (2004). "Humston, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14168. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
John Chardon		 Bishop of Down and Connor
1602–1606		 Succeeded by
John Todd


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