Bartholomew Vigors
Bartholomew Vigors (1644–1721) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.[1] He was the fourth son of the Reverend Urban Vigors of Ardnageehy, County Cork, and his wife Catherine Boyle, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Boyle.They belonged to a branch of the prominent landowning family of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow.[5] Having purchased the manor of Old Leighlin in County Carlow from Joseph Deane, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, in his will he bequeathed it to his successors as Bishop in perpetuity, in addition to numerous other charitable bequests.They had at least six children, including Martha who married Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet of Dunmore, Susanna who married St. Leger Gilbert (brother of the Countess of Cavan), and Katherine who married John Beauchamp.