Robert Naylor (priest)

Robert Naylor (died 1661) was a Seventeenth Century priest in Ireland.[1]

A cousin of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork,[2] he was born in Canterbury.[3] He was ordained in 1625 and was Prebendary of Brigown in Cloyne Cathedral[4] until he became Dean of Lismore in 1630.[5] In 1640 he became Dean of Limerick,[6] a post he held until his death in 1661.

References
  1. "A New History of Ireland" Moody,T.W; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  2. "Cromwellian Ireland: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1649-1660" Barnard, T.C. p151: Oxford, Clarendon, 1975 ISBN 019820857X
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  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p325: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p168: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  6. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p396: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878


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