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A priest hunter was a person who, acting on behalf of the English and later British government, spied on or captured Catholic priests during Penal Times. Priest hunters were effectively bounty hunters .
Richard Topcliffe (14 November 1531 – late 1604) [1] was a priest hunter and practitioner of torture [1] during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. A landowner and Member of Parliament, he became notorious as the government's chief enforcer of the penal laws against the practice of Catholicism.
Seán na Sagart (John of the Priests in Irish) (c. 1690 – 1726) was a priest hunter during Penal Times in Ireland.. Born John O'Mullowny [1] in Derrew, near Ballyheane, County Mayo, he began his career as a horse thief but was arrested and sentenced to death in Castlebar in his youth.
Edward Tyrrell (died May 28, 1713) was a priest-hunter based in Ireland.He travelled the country from 1710 onwards looking for Catholic priests and bishops. Tyrrell was working to enforce the Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery, commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act, which was an Act of parliament of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1703 and amended in 1709, one of a ...
Pages in category "Priest hunters" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. John Arnold of ...
Andrew John Hunter (born 3 June 1957) [1] has been Dean of Grahamstown [2] [3] since 2008. [4] He is also Archdeacon of Grahamstown.. Hunter was born in Pietermaritzburg and educated at the University of Cape Town, St Paul's College, Grahamstown, the University of the Western Cape, Cardiff University and the Nelson Mandela University where he obtained a DPhil in Conflict Management and ...
Sean na Sagart (1690–1726), Irish priest hunter This page was last edited on 14 January 2025, at 19:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In Irish history, Colonel Richards is best known for his role as a priest hunter and as one of the judges in 1654 who condemned underground Roman Catholic priest William Tirry, who was Beatified in 1992 as one of the Irish Catholic Martyrs.