Charles Bunworth

Reverend

Charles Bunworth
ChurchChurch of Ireland
DioceseCork, Cloyne and Ross
Orders
Ordination15 March 1731
Personal details
Born1704
Died14 September 1772 (aged 68)
Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland
ParentsRichard Bunworth
Elizabeth Philpot
SpouseMary Delacour
ChildrenElizabeth Bunworth (b. 1744)
Mary Bunworth (b. 1746)
Alma materTrinity 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.