John Atherton

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John Atherton
John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, was hanged for sodomy under a law that he had helped to institute; his proctor John Childe was also hanged. Anonymous pamphlet, 1641.
ChurchChurch of Ireland
DioceseDiocese of Waterford and Lismore
Orders
Consecration28 May 1636
by Lancelot Bulkeley
Personal details
Born1598
Somerset, England
Died5 December 1640(1640-12-05) (aged 41–42)
Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

John Atherton (1598 – 5 December 1640) was the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in the Church of Ireland. He and John Childe (his steward and tithe proctor) were both tried and executed for buggery in 1640.

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