Percy Jocelyn

Percy Jocelyn

Country

Ireland

Birth - Death

1764 - 1843

Occupation

Religion

Description

Irish bishop, caught in a sexual relationship with a soldier and charged with sodomy, but allowed to escape. Most senior churchman to be involved in a public homosexual scandal in the nineteenth century

Further Reading/Research

• http://rictornorton.co.uk/clogher1.htm
• http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioj1/jocely01.html

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