Maurice Fenwick Bisset

This person's surname is Fenwick (pre-1821) or Fenwick Bisset (after 1821), not Bisset (alone).

Maurice George Fenwick Bisset[1] (né Fenwick, also spelt Fenwicke), a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin,[2] was an Irish Anglican priest in the second half of the 19th century. He was Archdeacon of Raphoe from his collation on 29 January 1846[3] until 1852. He died on 6 August 1879.[4] He assumed the extra surname Bisset by royal licence in 1821, when his wife inherited the Bisset of Lessendrum estate.[5]

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  2. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses (1593-1860)" Burtchchaell, G.D.;Sadleir, T.H (Ed) p277: Dublin, Alex ThomThom & Co
  3. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p366 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  4. ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence – The Essex Standard, West Suffolk Gazette, and Eastern Counties' Advertiser (Colchester, England), Saturday, 23 August 1879; pg. 6; Issue 2541
  5. ^ Temple, Rev. William. The Thanage of Fermartyn, quoted on rootsweb.ancestry.com