1787–1863

Introduction

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Born: Feb­ru­ary 1, 1787, Ma­ry­le­bone, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: Oc­to­ber 6, 1863, Dub­lin, Ire­land.

Buried: Saint Patrick’s Ca­thed­ral, Dub­lin, Ire­land.

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Biography

Whately at­tend­ed Ori­el Col­lege, Oxford (BA 1808, MA 1812, BD & DD 1825), and was or­dained an Anglican priest in 1814.

He was Bamp­ton Lec­tur­er in 1822, be­came prin­ci­pal of St. Alban Hall, Ox­ford, in 1825, and bi­shop of Dub­lin, Ire­land, in 1831.

He was a mem­ber of the Roy­al Ir­ish Aca­de­my and the House of Lords (1833).

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