John Brinkley, bishop of Cloyne

(1766 c.-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brinkley, John, 1763-1835 NRA: Brinkley John (1763-1835) Bishop of Cloyne astronomer DNB: Brinkley, John (1766/7–1835), mathematician and astronomer LBT ID: JoBrink1835 VIAF ID: 13089468 LOC ID: n85295108	B/BAP: 1766 DIED: 1835-09-14
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Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he was professor of astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin (1792) and bishop of Cloyne (1826).
REFERENCES TO John Brinkley, bishop of Cloyne: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1825 Found 1: ¶ 16