Capel Wiseman was an English Anglican priest[1] in Ireland in the second half of the seventeenth century:[2]

Wiseman was educated at New College, Oxford. He was Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772 until 1776 when he was appointed Dean of Raphoe.[3] In 1783 he became Bishop of Dromore, a post he held until his death in September 1694.[4]

References

  1. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 348–350. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  2. ^ "A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  3. ^ "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p362 Cotton, H :Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1878
  4. ^ "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p282 Cotton, H :Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1878


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