Joseph Story was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.
Story was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Chaplain to the Irish House of Commons in 1731 and Dean of Ferns in 1734. He was appointed to the episcopate at Bishop of Killaloe in 1740 and translated to Kilmore in 1742. He died on 22 September 1757.
In literature
An unnamed Bishop of Kilmore appears in the latter portion of the short story "The Ash-tree" by M.R. James, set in 1754. Whether this is a Roman Catholic or Church of Ireland bishop is not explicitly stated, but in context the latter is more probable; if so, this character would be Joseph Story, who held the see at that time. In the story, the bishop is a guest at the country house of Sir Richard Fell and participates in the investigation of his death.
References
- NUI Galway
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- 'Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, Volumes 1–11' p125: Dublin, Abraham Bradley, 1763
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p351 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361 ISBN 0-521-56350-X
- "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p169 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
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