Difference between revisions of "Percy Jocelyn"
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+ | * [[LGBTQ Ireland]] | ||
==Further Reading/Research== | ==Further Reading/Research== |
Latest revision as of 15:43, 24 January 2016
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.