William Maire (1704–1769) was an

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of the

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. He served as

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to the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District from 1768 to 1769. He was born at

Lartington Hall Lartington Hall is a 17th-century country house, at Lartington, Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is a listed building, Grade II* listed building. Architecture The earliest part of the house, built for the Appleby family, is the three-storey ...

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on 14 January 1704, the son of Thomas Maire and Mary Maire (née Fermor) and brother of

John Maire John Maire (1703–1771) was a leading English Roman Catholic conveyancer. Maire was the son of Thomas Maire of Lartington, Yorkshire, and an elder brother of the Roman Catholic priest William Maire. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1727; as a ...

. He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

to the priesthood at

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by James Augustine O'Daly,

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in December 1730. William Maire was appointed

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, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District on 1 October 1767. He was

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the

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of '' Cinna'' on 29 May 1768, the principal

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was Bishop

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, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop

and Bishop James Robert Talbot. Without succeeding the

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, he died at Lartington Hall on 25 July 1769, aged 65, and buried in the family vault at the Anglican Parish Church in

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., ''The Episcopal Succession, volume 3'', p. 262.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maire, William 1704 births 1769 deaths 18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England Apostolic vicars of England and Wales