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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Young, Matthew, Bishop of Clonfert, 1750-1800 NRA: Young Matthew (1750-1800) Bishop of Clonfert DNB: Young, Matthew (1750-1800), natural philosopher and bishop of Clonfert LBT ID: MaYoung1800 VIAF ID: 103691679 LOC ID: n86804489 | B/BAP: 1750-10-03 DIED: 1800-11-28 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was professor of natural philosophy
(1786) before being consecrated as bishop of Clonfert (1798). He was a student of Gaelic
poetry. | |
REFERENCES TO Matthew Young, bishop of Clonfert: Joseph Cooper Walker to Sydney Owenson, 4 February 1806 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
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