Nathaniel Foy

(1648 – 31 December 1707),[1][2] was a bishop of Waterford and Lismore who belonged to a new generation of reformers of the established church along with William King and Narcissus Marsh.

[1] After the battle of the Boyne his constancy was rewarded by William II, who promoted him to the united sees of Waterford and Lismore by letters patent 13 July 1691.

In September 1695 he was imprisoned in Dublin Castle for three days by order of the House of Lords, for having reportedly spoken disrespectfully of that assembly in a protest against the rejection of a bill for union and division of parishes.

[1] During his lifetime he expended 800 pound sterling on the improvement of the palace at Waterford, and by his will he established and endowed the free school at Grantstown.

His only publication is "A Sermon preached in Christ's Church, Dublin, on 23 October 1698, being the anniversary thanksgiving for putting an end to the Irish Rebellion, which broke out on that day in 1641.