Anglican churchman, born in Cheshire, England, in 1594, and educated at Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge. He was already subdean of Ripon, on the way to high preferment, when he went to Ireland as Wentworth’s chaplain in 1633. He soon became archdeacon of Meath, and was consecrated bishop of Derry in 1634. On the Restoration he was made archbishop of Armagh (1660), where he died on the 25th of June 1663.
