Edmund Knox (bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe)

Edmund Knox (1772 – 3 May 1849) was an absentee Irish bishop in the mid 19th century whose death at the height of the Irish Famine lead to a famously critical leading article in The Times

He was born in 1772, the 7th and youngest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Dean of Down from 1817 to his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in 1831.Translated to become Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1834 he died in post on 3 May 1849.