Thomas Lewis O'Beirne (1749 – 17 February 1823), was an Anglican bishop,
Bishop of Ossory
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from 1795 to 1798 when he was
translated
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to
Meath
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Life
Born in 1749, the eldest son of a Roman Catholic
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farmer, he was educated at the Catholic College of St Omer
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before converting to Anglicanism. Ordained a priest in 1773, he was entered on the books of Trinity College, Cambridge
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as a ten-year man
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the same year.