Dive Downes (b

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1652 – d

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1709) was

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from 1699 to 1709. Downes was born in

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, son of the Reverend Lewis Downes. He was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. He was

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in 1678. In 1683 he became a

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, and in 1690

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. He was married four times. He married firstly Sarah Dodwell, daughter of Henry Dodwell of

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, secondly Anne Carleton, and thirdly Elizabeth Becher, daughter of Thomas Becher of Sherkin and widow of Horatio Townshend, by whom he had a daughter Elizabeth, who married her cousin Henry Baldwin of Mount Pleasant. By his fourth wife Catherine FitzGerald, daughter of the Honorable Robert FitzGerald and Mary Clotworthy, and sister of

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, he had a son Robert Downes, MP for

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, of Donnybrook Castle, and a daughter Anne. Robert was the father of

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. Anne married Thomas Burgh and was the mother of

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, and grandmother of

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. He was a conscientious bishop, and in 1699–1700 he visited every parish in his

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: his "Visitation of Cork" has survived.''An Irishman's Diary'' "Irish Times" 31/07/2012.

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1652 births 1709 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Bishops of Cork and Ross (Church of Ireland) 17th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland 18th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Archdeacons of Dublin People from West Northamptonshire District {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub