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.
[1] 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 [2] to his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in 1831.
[3] Translated to become Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1834[4] he died in post on 3 May 1849.