John Garvey (1527–1595) was an Irish Protestant

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and

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Life

He was eldest son of John O'Garvey of Morisk,

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, but was born in

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. He was educated at the

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, graduating in the reign of Edward VI. His first ecclesiastical preferment was the deanery of Ferns, to which he was appointed by letters patent in 1558; in the following year, 13 July, he became

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and rector of Kells, and in 1560 he was instituted to the

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of Tipperkevin in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. On 27 January 1561, he received letters of

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from the Crown. Becoming an important Crown adviser, he was made dean of

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, in 1565, and a member of the

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. In 1585 he was promoted to the

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, on the recommendation of

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, and was allowed to hold ''

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'' his deanery and archdeaconry. From Kilmore he was translated in May 1589 to the Archbishopric of Armagh, still retaining his minor preferments; in recognition of service, the payment of his first fruits was remitted. In 1591, in answer to a circular appeal from

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, Lord Deputy, he gave towards the building of

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. He died in Dublin on 2 March 1595, and was buried in Christ Church.

Family

He firstly married Margaret, daughter of Christopher Plunket of

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in County Meath and his wife Catherine Bermingham, and sister of the Right Honourable Sir John Plunket, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Their eldest son was Sir Christopher Garvey. His second wife was Rose Money, widow of Alderman John Money, and daughter of Thomas Ussher and Margaret Geydon, and his successor in the archbishopric was his brother-in-law,

Henry Ussher Henry Ussher (1550 – 2 April 1613) was an Irish Protestant churchman, a founder of Trinity College, Dublin, and Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh. Life The second of five sons of Thomas Ussher by Margaret (d. January 1597), daughter of H ...

Works

A treatise is ascribed to him by Anthony Wood, ''The Conversion of Philip Corwine, a Franciscan Friar, to the Reformation of the Protestant Religion, an. 1589,'' published by Robert Ware in his ''Foxes and Firebrands,'' Dublin, 1681, from a supposed original, found among the manuscripts of James Ussher's ecte James Ware (historian), his father who seems more likely">James_Ware_(historian).html" ;"title="ecte James Ware (historian)">ecte James Ware (historian), his father who seems more likely Corwine was a nephew of Hugh Curwen. Robert Ware however was well known as an anti-Catholic forger.Diarmaid MacCulloch, ‘Foxes, firebrands, and forgery: Robert Ware’s pollution of Reformation History’, ''Historical Journal'', 54:2 (June 2011), 307-46.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garvey, John 1527 births 1595 deaths People from County Kilkenny Deans of Ferns Deans of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Anglican archbishops of Armagh Anglican bishops of Kilmore People of Elizabethan Ireland 16th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Archdeacons of Meath