Robert Knox (bishop)
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The Most Reverend Robert Knox |
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| Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland | |
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| See | Armagh |
| Installed | 1886 |
| Term ended | 1893 |
| Predecessor | Marcus Beresford |
| Successor | Robert Gregg |
| Other posts | Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore |
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| Born | 25 September 1808 |
| Died | 23 October 1893 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Church of Ireland |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Robert Bent Knox (25 September 1808 – 23 October 1893) was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore from 1849 to 1886, and then Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1886 until his death.
Born in 1808 at Dungannon Park, County Tyrone, the country seat of his grandfather, Thomas Knox, first Viscount Northland (d. 1818), Knox was the second son of the Hon. Charles Knox (d. 1825), archdeacon of Armagh, and his wife, Hannah, the daughter of Robert Bent MP.
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the age of twenty-one, then graduated MA in 1834. He was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws by Cambridge in 1888.
In 1832, Knox was ordained deacon and priest by Bishop Beresford of Kilmore. On 7 May 1834 he became chancellor of Ardfert. On 16 October 1841 he was collated as prebendary of St Munchin's, Limerick, by his uncle Edmund Knox, Bishop of Limerick, who also made him his domestic chaplain.
In 1849 he became a Doctor of Divinity and was appointed Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore. In 1886, he was created Archbishop of Armagh. He was succeeded in Down, Connor and Dromore by William Reeves.
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