Thomas Barnard, Bishop of Limerick

The Right Reverend Thomas Barnard S.T.B.
Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe
Church	Church of Ireland
Installed	22 May 1794
Term ended	7 June 1806
Predecessor	William Cecil Pery
Successor	Charles Mongan Warburton
Orders
Consecration	20 February 1780 by Charles Agar
Personal details
Born	1726 or 1728
Died	7 June 1806 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
Denomination	Church of England
Parents	William Barnard
Occupation	clergyman
Previous post	Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
Education	Leeds grammar School and Westminster School
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Thomas Barnard (c. 1726/28–1806) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora (1780–1794) and Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1794–1806).

Born in 1726 or 1728, he was the eldest son of Dr. William Barnard, Bishop of Raphoe (later of Derry). He was educated at Westminster School, where he was admitted a King's Scholar in 1741, but he almost certainly spent some time at Leeds Grammar School. Later he went up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was awarded with a Bachelor of Arts in 1756, Master of Arts in 1760 and Bachelor of Divinity in 1769.

He was successively Vicar of Maghera (1751–1760),Archdeacon of Derry (1760–1769), and Dean of Derry (1769–1780). He was nominated Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora by King George III on 29 January 1780 and consecrated bishop at the Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle on 20 February 1780. The principal consecrator was Charles Agar, Archbishop of Cashel, and the principal co-consecrators were William Newcome, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore and Isaac Mann, Bishop of Cork and Ross. Fourteen years later, he was translated to the bishopric of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe; having been nominated to the see on 14 August 1794 and by letters patent on 12 September 1794.