Welbore MacCarthy

He was born in 1840 in Cork on the southern coast of Ireland the son of Robert McCarthy (sic) and his wife Mary.

[1] He was educated at St Aidan's RC School in Birkenhead then studied Divinity at Trinity College, Dublin.

[3] From 1874 to 1898 he was a missionary priest in India, rising in time to be Archdeacon of Calcutta.

[4] Returning to England he was Rector of Ashwell[5] then Rural Dean of Corringham until 1905 when he was appointed to the episcopate.

He died at home, 20 Somerset Road in Ealing, on 21 March 1925.

Memorial to Welbore MacCarthy. Lincoln Cathedral