Ralph Ironside was

Archdeacon of Dorset The Archdeacon of Dorset is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Salisbury, England. He or she is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the four area deaneries: Purbeck, Poole, Wimborne, and Milto ...

from 1671 until 1683. He was the son of Ralph Ironside, rector of Long Bredy, Dorset, and the younger brother of

Gilbert Ironside Gilbert Ironside the younger (1632 – 27 August 1701) was an English churchman and academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1667, Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Hereford. Life He was the third son of Gilbert Ironside the elder, bor ...

, Bishop of Bristol. He was educated at

Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

'Ibbetson-Izod', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 785-792 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp785-792 ccessed 22 January 2015/ref> and later held incumbencies at

Netherbury Netherbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, by the small River Brit, south of Beaminster and north of Bridport. The A3066 road connecting those towns lies 0. ...

and Long Bredy. He died on 5 March 1683, being buried at Long Bredy.

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Archdeacons of Dorset 17th-century English Anglican priests {{UK-reli-bio-stub