Barnard, Thomas, 1727-1806

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Barnard, Thomas, 1727-1806

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1727-1806

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BARNARD, THOMAS, elder son of William Barnard (qv); bapt. Esher, Surrey 22 Feb 1727 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jan 1737/8; KS 1741; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 24 Oct 1744; BA 1748; MA (Camb. ) 1749, incorp. Dublin 1750; DD Dublin 1761; ordained; Rector of Maghera and Killelagh, Derry, 1752; Archdeacon of Derry 3 Jun 1761; Dean of Derry 2 Jun 1769; consecrated Bishop of Killaloe 20 Feb 1780; translated to see of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 12 Sep 1794; FRS 29 May 1783; Hon. Chaplain to the Royal Academy from 1791; a member of the celebrated “Literary Club”, the “good Dean” of Goldsmith’s Retaliation, and the subject of Johnson’s charade (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, iv, 195); drew up the Round Robin (ibid, ii, 82-5); his famous encounter with Johnson is told by Richard Burke (Burke’s Correspondence, 1844, i, 403-7, and Boswell, Life of Johnson, iv, 115, 431-3); m. 1st, 20 Jul 1758 Anne, dau. of William Browne, Browne’s Hill, Co. Carlow; m. 2nd, 1803, Jane, dau. of John Ross-Lewin, Fort Fergus, Co. Clare; d. 7 Jun 1806. DNB.

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GB-2014-WSA-02683

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GB 2014

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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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