Richard Betts (priest)

Richard Betts was an Anglican priest.[1]

Betts was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King James I & VI.[2] He was appointed Bishop of Kilfenora by letters patent on 19 September 1628,[3] but who, when he arrived in Ireland and learned of the poverty of the see, declined the appointment and left without consecration.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ "Clare Places – Kilfenora: Historical Background". clarelibrary.ie. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  2. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  3. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
  4. ^ Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.