John Worth, B.D. (1648-1688) was an Irish Anglican Dean.[1]

The son of Bishop Edward Worth,[2] and Susannah Pepper, daughter of Denis Pepper, a cousin of the Earl of Cork, and brother of the noted judge William Worth, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] He was appointed a prebendary of Killaloe in 1670;[4] Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1671;[5] Dean of Kildare in 1675;[6] and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1678.[7] He died on 12 April 1688.[8]

Religious differences played a large part in his own early life. His father was a Protestant of strongly Puritan leanings, with no sympathy for either Baptists or Quakers. His mother on the other hand was a Quaker who was arrested in 1664 for publicly attending Quaker meetings. This caused a breach between the couple which was never healed: in his last will his father urged his mother to repent for her unorthodox beliefs.

His wife's first name was Comfort: they had ten children. Only two are known to have survived into adulthood, Michael and Edward Worth (1678-1733), the noted physician and book collector.

Notes

  1. ↑ "The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick Near Dublin, from it Foundation in 1190, to the Year 1819: Comprising a Topographical Account of the Lands and Parishes Appropriated to the Community of the Cathedral, and to Its Members, and Biographical Memoirs of Its Deans" Mason, W.M. p212:Dublin, W.Folds, 1820
  2. ↑ Ware, Sir James (1739). The whole works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, Volume 1. p. 596.
  3. ↑ "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p895: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p492 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  5. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p118 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  6. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p238 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  7. ↑ Cathedral web-site
  8. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. pp103/4 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878


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