This article is about the 17th-century Irish Anglican bishop. For the First World War British writer, see
Bernard Adams (writer).
Bernard Adams (1566 – 1626) was an
Anglicanbishop in
Ireland[1] during the first half of the 17th century.[2]
Adams was born in
Middlesex, and was educated at
Trinity College, Oxford, being made scholar in 1583 and fellow in 1588.[3] He was consecrated
Bishop of Limerick in 1604.[4] He also held the
Bishopric of Kilfenorain commendam from 1606 until 1617. He died on 22 March 1626, and was buried in
St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, which he had done much to improve and beautify; he gave the Cathedral its first
organ in 1624.[5] As a man he was praised as being liberal and pious. He seems to have been on friendly terms with the
poetAnne Southwell, another English native who had settled in Ireland; her poem "Letter to Doctor Adam" is addressed to him.
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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.