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Nathaniel Foy, D.D. (1648 – 31 December 1707),^[ane] ^[2] was a bishop of Waterford and Lismore who belonged to a new generation of reformers of the established church along with William King and Narcissus Marsh.^[3] He had defended the established church during the reign of James Two when most bishops had fled the country.^[1]

Nathaniel Foy was the son of John Foy, M.D. He was born at York, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he afterwards became a senior young man. He was ordained a priest in 1670, and in the same twelvemonth was installed as a canon of Kildare. On twenty December 1678 he was appointed minister of the parish of St. Bride, Dublin.^[1]

In the reign of James 2 he stood upward boldly in defense force of the established church when well-nigh bishops had fled the country. Crowds assembled at St. Bride'due south on alternate Sundays to hear his replies to the sermons delivered at Christ Church on the preceding Sundays by a dr. of the Sorbonne in the presence of the King. He accomplished this by means of abstracts of his antagonists' arguments supplied to him past gentlemen who wrote autograph. He was prevented from preaching on several occasions by the menaces of some of the king'due south baby-sit, and his firmness in supporting the Protestant faith led to his existence imprisoned, together with Dr. King and other clergymen.^[ane]

After the boxing of the Boyne his constancy was rewarded by William II, who promoted him to the united sees of Waterford and Lismore by messages patent 13 July 1691. In September 1695 he was imprisoned in Dublin Castle for three days by order of the House of Lords, for having reportedly spoken disrespectfully of that assembly in a protest against the rejection of a pecker for spousal relationship and sectionalisation of parishes.^[1]

He died in Dublin on 31 December 1707, and was buried at the westward cease of Waterford Cathedral, in St. Saviour's Chapel.^[1]

During his lifetime he expended 800 pound sterling on the comeback of the palace at Waterford, and by his will he established and endowed the gratis school at Grantstown. His only publication is "A Sermon preached in Christ's Church building, Dublin, on 23 October 1698, being the anniversary thanksgiving for putting an end to the Irish gaelic Rebellion, which broke out on that mean solar day in 1641. Before the House of Lords," Dublin 1698, 4to.^[5]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Foy, Nathaniel". Oxford Lexicon of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford Academy Printing. doi:x.1093/ref:odnb/10055. (Subscription or United kingdom public library membership required.)
^ Fryde, East. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 407. ISBN0-521-56350-Ten.
^ Gillespie, Raymond (2006). Seventeenth Century Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 229. ISBN978-0-7171-3946-0.
^ Larkin, Rita. "Kidwell, William". Sculpture 1600–2000. Fine art and Architecture of Ireland. Vol. 3. pp. 195–196.
^ "Sermon preached in Christ's-Church, Dublin; on the 23d. of October, 1698 : Being the anniversary thanksgiving for putting an stop to the Irish Rebellion, which broke out on that solar day, 1641. Before the House of Lords. Past Nathanael Lord Bishop of Waterford". Primary catalogue of the British Library . Retrieved 8 October 2021.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:"Foy, Nathaniel". Lexicon of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.