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patrick everard
 archbishop your grace the most reverend
patrick everard

patrick everard -lrb- died 31 march 1821 -rrb- was a roman catholic prelate who served as the archbishop of cashel and emly from 1820 to 1821 .
patrick everard was born in fethard , county of tipperary , attending a classical school locally .
he was educated at the university of salamanca in spain where he moved to in 1776 , he was ordained in 1783 and obtained a doctorate of divinty from the university of bordeaux in france .
following his studies , he was the president of the irish college in bordeaux and vicar general to the archbishop of bordeaux until the french revolution drove him out of the country .
he spent some time in england as principal of a lay academy at ulverstone , lancashire , which he had purchased from the jesuits , before becoming the president of maynooth college in ireland .
everard was elected the coadjutor of the archdiocese of cashel and emly by the propagation of the faith on 19 september , and was approved by pope pius vii on 29 september 1814 .
he was also appointed the titular archbishop of `` mitylene '' on 4 october 1814 , and received episcopal consecration from bishop william coppinger of cloyne and ross on 23 april 1815 .
on the death of archbishop thomas bray on 15 december 1820 , everard automatically succeeded as the metropolitan archbishop of cashel and emly .
after holding the office for only a short while , he died on 31 march 1821 .
dr. everard , in his will left # 10,000 `` for the purpose of founding a college to provide a liberal education of catholic youth destined for the priesthood and professional/business careers '' .
and some years after his death st. patrick 's college , thurles was founded .
