Reverend Charles Bunworth | |
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Church | Church of Ireland |
Diocese | Cork, Cloyne and Ross |
Orders | |
Ordination | 15 March 1731 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1704 Freemount, County Cork, Ireland |
Died | 14 September 1772 (aged 68) Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland |
Parents | Richard Bunworth Elizabeth Philpot |
Spouse | Mary Delacour |
Children | Elizabeth Bunworth (b. 1744) Mary Bunworth (b. 1746) |
Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
Reverend Charles Bunworth was an Irish harpist and the Church of Ireland rector of Buttevant, County Cork. Born in 1704, he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with an M.A. in Divinity Studies in 1730 and was ordained the following year. He was a renowned patron of the arts and a skilled harpist. He died in 1772 at the age of 68 and is buried in the churchyard of St John’s, Buttevant.