Donnybrook Castle, home of the Ussher family whose most famous member was James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, is first mentioned in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was demolished early in the nineteenth century.

Ussher stated his time of Creation ( nightfall preceding October 23 ) on the first page of Annales in Latin and on the first page of its English translation Annals of the World ( 1658 ).

William Pengelly, FRS FGS ( 12 January 1812 – 16 March 1894 ) was a British geologist and early archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect.

Ramsden's transit instruments were the first which were illuminated through the hollow axis ; the idea was suggested to him by Prof. Henry Ussher in Dublin.

His mother's cousin, William A. E. Ussher of the Geological Survey, first interested David in what was to be his life work.

Andrewes was considered, next to Ussher, to be the most learned churchman of his day, and enjoyed a great reputation as an eloquent and impassioned preacher, but the stiffness and artificiality of his style render his sermons unsuited to modern taste.

In May 1602, he was ordained in the Trinity College Chapel as a deacon in the Protestant, established, Church of Ireland ( and possibly priest on the same day ) by his uncle Henry Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

The Ussher chronology of the 1650s had calculated creation at 4004 BC, but by the 1780s geologists assumed a much older world.

* 3929 BC — Date of creation according to John Lightfoot based on the Old Testament of the Bible, and often associated with the Ussher chronology.

Ussher was very reluctant to arrive at firm judgements as to the sources ' authenticity — hence his devotion of a whole chapter to the imaginative but invented stories of King Lucius and the creation of a Christian episcopate in Britain.

Proposed calculations of the date of creation using the Masoretic from the 10th century to the 18th century include: Marianus Scotus ( 4192 BC ), Maimonides ( 4058 BC ), Henri Spondanus ( 4051 BC ), Benedict Pereira ( 4021 BC ), Louis Cappel ( 4005 BC ), James Ussher ( 4004 BC ), Augustin Calmet ( 4002 BC ), Isaac Newton ( 4000 BC ), Johannes Kepler ( April 27, 3977 BC ) on his book Mysterium, Petavius ( 3984 BC ), Theodore Bibliander ( 3980 BC ), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus ( 3966 BC ), Melanchthon ( 3964 BC ), Martin Luther ( 3961 BC ), John Lightfoot ( 3960 BC ), Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide ( 3951 BC ) Joseph Justus Scaliger ( 3949 BC ), Christoph Helvig ( 3947 BC ), Gerardus Mercator ( 3928 BC ), Matthieu Brouard ( 3927 BC ), Benito Arias Montano ( 3849 BC ), Andreas Helwig ( 3836 BC ), David Gans ( 3761 BC ), Gershom ben Judah ( 3754 BC )

Ussher provides a slightly different time in his " Epistle to the Reader " in his Latin and English works: " I deduce that the time from the creation until midnight, January 1, 1 AD was 4003 years, seventy days and six hours.

This, they argue, renders genealogically-based dating of the creation, such as the Ussher chronology, to be inaccurate.

In 1650 the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, published a monumental history of the world from creation to 70 A. D.

* Archbishop Ussher, who authored a chronology for the creation

Ussher says that Ninian left Candida Casa for Cluayn-coner in Ireland, and eventually died in Ireland ; that his mother was a Spanish princess ; that his father wished to regain him after having assented to his training for an ecclesiastical state ; that a bell comes from heaven to call together his disciples ; that a wooden church was raised by him, with beams delivered by stags ; and that a harper with no experience at architecture was the builder of the church.

* 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.

He cites renaissance historians such as Archbishop James Ussher, Caesar Baronius and John Hardyng, as well as classical writers like Caesar, Tacitus and Juvenal, although his classical cites at least are wildly inaccurate, many of his assertions are unsourced, and many of his identifications entirely speculative.

Ussher was a gifted polyglot, entering Dublin Free School and then the newly-founded ( 1591 ) Trinity College, Dublin on 9 January 1594, at the age of thirteen ( not an unusual age at the time ).

Ussher soon found himself at odds with the rise of Arminianism and Wentworth and Laud's desire for conformity between the Church of England and the more Calvinistic Church of Ireland.

Ussher resisted this pressure at a convocation in 1634, ensuring that the English Articles of Religion were adopted as well as the Irish articles, not instead of them, and that the Irish canons had to be redrafted based on the English ones rather than replaced by them.

The traditional view of Ussher is of a slightly-unworldly scholar, who was, at best, a mediocre politician and administrator.

After Convocation in 1634, Ussher left Dublin for his episcopal residence at Drogheda, where he concentrated on his archdiocese and his research.

In 1639 James Ussher suggested a semi-circular shape, rounded in the front and culminating at a line between the ears.

* Robert Ussher, Bishop of Kildare-buried at Doddleston Chapel, near Oswestry

Journalists observed that three of Darling's four junior ministers at the Treasury ( Angela Eagle, Jane Kennedy and Kitty Ussher ) were female and dubbed his team, " Darling's Darlings ".

Academics who were elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy ( Ireland's highest ranking academic body ) while based at Ulster include: Bertie Ussher ( Classics ), Norman Gibson ( Economics ), Amyan Macfadyen ( Biology ), Bill Watts ( Chemistry ), P G ( Gerry ) McKenna ( Biomedical Sciences, Genetics ), Sean Strain ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Marshall McCabe ( Geology ), Peter Flatt ( Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes ), Séamus MacMathúna ( Celtic Studies ), Bob Welch ( Literature ), Vani Borooah ( Economics ), Máréaid Nic Craith ( Celtic Studies ), Graham Gargett ( French ), Helene McNulty ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Pól Ó Dochartaigh ( German ), Robert McBride ( French ), Ullrich Kockel ( ethnography ) and John McCloskey ( Geosciences ).

He collected a valuable library, of which most of the printed works remain still at Naworth, though the manuscripts have been dispersed, a portion being now in the Arundel manuscripts in the Royal College of Arms ; he corresponded with Ussher and was intimate with Camden, Spelman, and Cotton, whose eldest son married his daughter.

Soon afterwards he was detected in a correspondence with Archbishop James Ussher, then with the King at Oxford, and he was imprisoned as a spy, in Lord Petre's house in Aldersgate Street.

Ussher further narrowed down the date by using the Jewish calendar to establish Creation as beginning on a Sunday near the autumnal equinox.

) The time of the Ussher chronology is frequently misquoted as being 9 a. m., noon or 9 p. m. on 23 October.

If Lightfoot had attempted to calculate the autumnal equinox of 3929 BC, he, like Ussher, would have used the Rudolphine Tables, which placed the equinox on October 25, versus October 22 using modern equations.

* Bishop Ussher Dates the World: 4004 BC

* Ussher chronology begins history of the world in 4004 BC.

Later, the Church of England, under Archbishop Ussher in 1650, would pick 4004 BC.

" Why the World Was Created in 4004 BC: Archbishop Ussher and Biblical Chronology ", Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 67: 575 – 608

* Bishop Ussher Dates the World: 4004 BC

The author is unknown, even if since James Ussher it was considered to be the same author of the letters of Pseudo-Ignatius, perhaps the 4th century Eunomian bishop Julian of Cilicia.

After a 1647 work on the origin of the Creeds, Ussher published a treatise on the calendar in 1648.

In his article on Ussher's calendar, James Barr has identified three distinct periods that Ussher and others had to tackle:

His brother, Ussher, who resided near Edgeworthstown, along with relatives there ( including novelist Maria Edgeworth ), were keen for him to return to Ireland.