Educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, he was the last Chaplain of the Irish House of Commons.Bernard, J. H. (1905) The Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick; a history & description of the building, with a short account of the deans London: George Bell & Sons; p. 85 He was Dean of Tuam from 1809 until 1810;Cotton, H. Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878; Vol. 4, p. 23 Provost of Kilmacduagh from 1810 until 1813;Cotton, H. (1878) Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates. Dublin: Hodges & Smith; vol. 4, p. 210 and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1810;Cotton, H. (1878) Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates; Dublin: Hodges & Smith; vol. 2, pp. 106/7 until his death.Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D. E; Porter, S. & Roy, I. (1996) Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge: CUP ,
