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Personal data Robert Howard Bisschop van Elphin 


Household of Robert Howard Bisschop van Elphin

He is married to Patience Boleyn.

They got married in the year 1724, he was 40 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Catharina Howard  1740-1775 


Notes about Robert Howard Bisschop van Elphin

Rt. Rev. Robert Howard graduated with a Doctor of Divinity (D.D.). He held the office of Bishop of Elphin
http://thepeerage.com/p3048.htm#i30475

Howard, Robert (1683-1740), bishop of Elphin, was Ralph Howard's second son. He obtained a fellowship in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1703, became dean of Ardagh in 1722, was consecrated to the see of Killala in 1726, and in 1729 was translated to that of Elphin. In 1728 he succeeded his elder brother William in the estate of Shelton Abbey, co. Wicklow. In 1737 he brought thither the works of art which he inherited from his brother Hugh. He died in April 1740. He published six single sermons, preached on public occasions.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Howard,_Ralph_(DNB00)

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Historical events

Birthday September 24, 1683

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1683: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 23 » William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
    • July 16 » Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
    • September 17 » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules".
    • October 3 » Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.
    • October 6 » Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
    • November 1 » The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

Day of death April 8, 1740

  • The temperature on April 8, 1740 was about 2.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: sneeuw hagel. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.


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