# Thomas Stopford

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''' Thomas Stopford '''  was [Bishop of Cork and Ross](/source/Bishop_of_Cork_and_Ross)<ref>[York Herald](/source/York_Herald)  Saturday, 2 March 1805; Issue 768. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II</ref> from  1794 and died in post on  24 January 1805.<ref>"Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, [CUP](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 1996 {{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}, 9780521563505</ref>

He was the son of the first [Earl of Courtown](/source/James_Stopford%2C_1st_Earl_of_Courtown). He was Rector of Kiltinel and served as [Dean of Killaloe](/source/Dean_of_Killaloe) from 1781 to 1787 before being appointed [Dean of Ferns](/source/Dean_of_Ferns) in 1787.<ref>{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r5YAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA74 | title = Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates and ..., Volume 2 By Henry Cotton| page = 347| accessdate = 2012-02-11| last1 = Cotton| first1 = Henry| date = 1848}}</ref> In 1790 he was made second chaplain to [John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland](/source/John_Fane%2C_10th_Earl_of_Westmorland).<ref>[The Times](/source/The_Times) Tuesday, 26 January 1790; pg. 3; Issue 1587; col E ''[The Earl of Westmoreland](/source/John_Fane%2C_10th_Earl_of_Westmorland) has appointed the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Stopford, Dean of Ferns as his second chaplain''</ref>

In 1794 he was elevated to the episcopacy as Bishop of Cork and Ross.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

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