Henry Tilson (
bapt. 1577 – 1655),
Bishop of Elphin, was an
Irish Anglican churchman.
Life
The son of Henry Tilson, he was born in England at
Midgley
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, in Yorkshire. He graduated BA at
Balliol College, Oxford
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in 1597, became a fellow of
University College in 1599, and graduated MA 1601. He spent periods as rector of
Stanmer,
Sussex
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, and vicar of
Rochdale in
Lancashire.
Tilson went to Ireland as chaplain to
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, the Lord Deputy, and received preferment.
He was
Dean of Christ Church, Dublin from 1634 to 1639;
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...
of
Connor from 1635 until 1639;
[" Fasti Ecclesle Hibernicae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland. Vol III p257" Cotton, H: Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1849] and
Bishop of Elphin from his consecration on 23 September 1639 for the rest of his life.
In 1645 Tilson left Ireland, to avoid the insurgency that followed the
1641 Irish Rebellion
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 ( ga, Éirí Amach 1641) was an uprising by Irish Catholics in the Kingdom of Ireland, who wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and to partially or fully reverse the plantation ...
. He went to Soothill Hall, in Yorkshire, and the Southwell family. He continued to preach, at
Cumberworth, and died at Soothill Hall on 31 March 1655. He was buried at
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...
.
References
1655 deaths
Deans of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Archdeacons of Connor
Anglican bishops of Elphin
Year of birth unknown
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