Walter de Thornbury

Walter de Thornbury (died 1313) was an English-born statesman and cleric who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the 14th century.

His efforts to secure confirmation of his election as Archbishop of Dublin ended in tragedy with his death in a shipwreck.

Walter de Thornbury was born in Herefordshire, where he was later granted the manor of Wolferlow by the Mortimer family, with whom he was always closely associated.

[8] The same judges held the assizes in Cork City the following August, just before Thornbury set out on his fatal trip to Avignon.

[9] The ship he was travelling on sank in a storm with the loss of all lives on board, "as if Heaven had promulgated its judgment on the election", in the words of a nineteenth-century history.