Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland, his uncle Thomas Milles. Following his education at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1725, his uncle appointing him to the Precentorship of Lismore. Although he was English, his whole forty-year life of service to the church was spent in the Church of Ireland, eleven of them as a Bishop. He was in effect part of the Anglo-Irish social class. In 1734 he was appointed Vicar-General of the Dioceses of Waterford and Lismore. The following year, 1744 he was made Precentor of Waterford. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Chesterfield, then promoted him in 1745 to the Archdeaconry of Dublin. In 1756 the Archdeacon received an important preferment when he was appointed as a Bishop, the Bishop of Ossory. In 1765, having briefly been appointed the Bishop of Elphin, the Bishopric of Meath became vacant and Pococke was translated directly from Ossory to Meath in July. Sadly, he died three months later. DNB 1885 - 1900/Richard Pococke He seemed to have enjoyed a reputation as a preacher. On his tours in Scotland, he visited many Episcopal (i.e., Anglican) congregations, and preached and confirmed in them all,‘Bishop Pococke was the only Bishop of the Church of England, since the Revolution, that preached and confirmed in Scotland when Episcopacy was there abolished. For in the summer of 1760, this prelate made a journey from Ireland to the north parts of it (Scotland). . . He preached and confirmed in the English Church in Elgin, and continued to do so in every other of that persuasion which he had occasion to be near, greatly regarded and esteemed by all ranks and degrees of people.’ The Cambridge Chronicle, October 5, 1765.He spent many of his later years in travel throughout Britain and Ireland, publishing accounts of many of his journeys. For example, during early 1751 he toured north east Lancashire visiting Clitheroe, and Whalley, amongst other places. He died of apoplexy during a visitation at Charleville Castle, near Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1765. On his death, many of his manuscripts were given to the British Library. He was buried at Ardbraccan, County Meath, Ireland. Works Works by Richard Pococke in Internet Archive A Description of the East and Some other Countries, Vol. I: Observations on Egypt, W. Boyer, London, 1743. A Description of the East and Some other Countries, Vol. II, W.