(1659–1741) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1705–1714), Bishop of Raphoe (1714–1716), and Archbishop of Tuam (1716–1741).
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin.
In the late 1600s he was made the rector of Holy Trinity Church, Rathclaren.
Amongst other achievements he established a dynasty of prominent ecclesiastics and literary figures closely integrated into the Protestant squirearchy in the west of Ireland.
[2] His father, also named Edward, was the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.