Arthur Barton (bishop)

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Archbishop | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Arthur William Barton | honorific_suffix = | title = Archbishop of Dublin<br />Primate of Ireland | image = Arthur William Barton.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Barton in the 1930s | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = Church of Ireland | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = Dublin and Glendalough | see = | elected = 7 February 1939 | term = 1939–1956 | quashed =  | predecessor = John Gregg | successor = George Simms | opposed = | other_post =  | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = 1 May 1930 | consecrated_by = Charles D'Arcy | rank = | laicized =  | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1881|06|01}} | birth_place = Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1962|09|22|1881|06|01}} | death_place = | buried =  | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = Irish | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = Arthur Robinson Barton & Anne Jane Hayes | spouse = Zoe Dorothy Victoria Cosgrave | children = | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh <small>''(1930–1939)''</small> | education = | alma_mater = | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt =  | module = | module2 = | other = }} '''Arthur William Barton''' (1 June 1881 – 22 September 1962) was a Church of Ireland clergyman, from 1939 Archbishop of Dublin.

==Early life== Born in 1881, the son of the Rev. Arthur Robinson Barton (1846–1900) and his wife Anne Jane Hayes, Barton had three sisters and an older brother, Samuel (1876–1908), who died at sea.

Barton was educated at Wynyard School, Watford (which was notorious for its harsh discipline),<ref name="Lewis">Lewis, C. S., ''They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914–1963)'', p. 74</ref> and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated Bachelor of Divinity in 1903.<ref name="StMark">Hayes, E. C., [http://dundela.down.anglican.org/historytext.html Annals and Archives] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704113509/http://dundela.down.anglican.org/historytext.html |date=4 July 2008 }} (1932) at dundela.down.anglican.org</ref>

==Career== On 31 March 1914 Barton was instituted as Rector of St Mark's, Dundela, Belfast, remaining there until 1925,<ref name="StMark"/> and married Zoe Dorothy Victoria Cosgrave a few weeks after his arrival, on 21 April 1914. This was the home parish of C. S. Lewis, who attended Barton's old school in Watford.<ref name="Lewis"/> Lewis referred affectionately to Barton in his autobiography.

On 4 April 1930, he was elected Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, and on 15 February 1939 was translated to become Archbishop of Dublin.<ref name="Lewis"/><ref>Moody, Theodore William, ''A New History of Ireland'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=94hgYO8I6T0C&pg=PA406 p. 406]</ref>

Barton's son Arthur Henry Barton OBE RN (1916–2006) was a playwright, author and broadcaster, who created the BBC Radio character Mr Mooney.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ngb.chebucto.org/Newspaper-Obits/compass-obit-dec06.shtml | title=The Southern Gazette Obituaries | date=December 2006 | via=chebucto.org | accessdate=22 November 2020 }}</ref>

==Publications== *''Further Instructed: talks to a Confirmation class'' (1943)

==References== {{Reflist}}

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