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Robert Humston, D.D. was an Anglican bishop in the early seventeenth century.

An Englishman, he was Rector of Barton, Cheshire before coming over to Ireland. He was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor in 1602 and served for four years, prior to his death in late 1606.

Commissioned construction of Kilroot House, Country Antrim, during the early 17th-century.

References

1. Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 0713642556
2. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. pp 204/5 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
3. Evans, Mihail D. (2004). "Humston, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14168. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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