William Sheridan (bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh)

William Sheridan (c. 1635 – 3 October 1711) was a 17th-century Irish clergyman, who was Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh between 1682 and 1691,[1] having previously served as Dean of Down from 1669 to 1682.

William Sheridan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and became chaplain to Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

In 1691, like other members of the Non-juring schism, he was deprived of this see for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary following the 1688 coup d'etat.

[6] He left Ireland and spent the rest of his life, living in reduced circumstances, in London.

An engraving of Sheridan by William Sherwin is held by the National Library of Ireland.