Welbore Ellis was an English bishop of Kildare

Bishop of Kildare

The Bishop of Kildare was an episcopal title which took its name after the town of Kildare in County Kildare, Ireland. The title is no longer in use by any of the main Christian churches having been united with other bishoprics. In the Roman Catholic Church, the title has been merged with that of...

, bishop of Meath

Bishop of Meath

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 and Irish privy councillor.

Life

He was the fourth son of the Rev. John Ellis

John Ellis (clergyman)

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 (1606?–1681), rector of Waddesdon, and author of Vindiciæ Catholicæ; and brother to John Ellis

John Ellis (official)

-Life:Born in or about 1643, he was the eldest son of John Ellis, author of Vindiciæ Catholicæ, by his wife Susannah, daughter of William Welbore of Cambridge. He received his education at Westminster School, and was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1664. At college he met Humphrey...

 and William Ellis

William Ellis (Secretary of State)

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. He was educated at Westminster School

Westminster School

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 and at Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1684, M.A. 1687, and B.D. and D.D. by diploma 1697. He received in 1732 the ad eundem degree of D.D. from Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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.

Welbore Ellis became a prebendary of Winchester in 1696. He was promoted in 1705, by patent dated 22 September, to the bishopric of Kildare, with the deanery of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

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 in commendam

In Commendam

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, and was translated, 13 March 1731, to the bishopric of Meath, with a seat in the Irish privy council. He died on 1 January 1734, and was buried with in the cathedral of Christ Church, Dublin, where a monument was erected.

Works

His publications are:

• ‘The Dean of Dublin, Plaintiff, Archbishop of Dublin, Defendant, upon a Writ of Error—the Defendant's Case,’ London, 1724.
• ‘The Lord Bishop of Kildare, Dean of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Dublin, Plaintiff in Error. The Lord Archbishop of Dublin Defendant in Error. The Plaintiff in Error's Case,’ London, 1724.

Family

He married Diana, daughter of Sir John Briscoe, knt., of Boughton

Boughton

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, Northamptonshire

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, and Amberley Castle

Amberley Castle

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, Sussex

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, and had, with other issue, Welbore

Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip

Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip PC FRS was a British statesman. He held a number of political offices, including briefly serving as Secretary for the Colonies in 1782 during the American War of Independence.-Background:...

, later Baron Mendip.