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Joseph Irvine Peacocke (28 November 1866 – 31 January 1962) was a long serving Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.

Born into an ecclesiastical family — his father was Joseph Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin — on 28 November 1866 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1891 and his first post was a curacy in Shankill, Belfast. In 1894 he became Rector of Christ Church, Lisburn. He then held further incumbencies in Dublin and Bangor before his appointment to the episcopate in 1916. He was elected to Derry and Raphoe on 15 March and consecrated 25 April 1916; he resigned 31 December 1944. He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

References

1. The Times, Saturday, Dec 31, 1938; pg. 8; Issue 48191; col E Broadcasting Sunday Service St Columb's Cathedral Preacher J.I
2. "Peacocke, Joseph Irvine". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 September 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 406.
4. The Times, Friday, Aug 31, 1894; pg. 5; Issue 34357; col B Ecclesiastical intelligence
5. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
6. “Handbook of British Chronology” By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505

External links

• "Derry And Raphoe, Bishop of" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 59  – via Wikisource.

• 1866 births
• Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
• 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland
• Bishops of Derry and Raphoe
• 1962 deaths