Ussher

Ussher's father, Arnold Ussher, was a clerk in chancery who married James Stanihurst 's daughter, Margaret, who was reportedly a Roman Catholic.

In the 19th century, discoveries of fossils and the later invention of radiometric dating demonstrated that the Earth is billions of years old, debunking Ussher’s timeline.

Newtown tasted late agony when Hurford managed to keep alive Alex Gammond's deep right wing cross which Ussher fumbled and Jasper Payne capitalised by scrambling home.

The bleak economic picture Ussher paints has only got worse since the pamphlets were published last week.

Built by the British at James Fort (1871), it overlooks the harbour and gives the opportunity to view the James and Ussher fort, and the Bukom district.

Although James Ussher regarded it as genuine, if there is any genuine nucleus of the Martyrium, it has been so greatly expanded with interpolations that no part of it is without questions.

As the middle ground between King and Parliament vanished in 1641–1642, Ussher was forced, reluctantly, to choose between his Calvinist allies in parliament and his instinctive loyalty to the monarchy.

Choosing AD 4004 is a satirical reference to the year "4004 BC", inferred by Bishop James Ussher to be the year of the creation of the universe, based on his study of the Book of Genesis.

Creationist cosmologies give the Universe an age consistent with the Ussher chronology and other young Earth time frames.

Donnybrook Castle was an Elizabethan mansion and residence of the Ussher family.

Early life and career In 1619 Ussher travelled to England, where he remained for two years.

For example, Archbishop Ussher wrote in 1613 of "being so conscious unto myself of my great weakness". citation Locke's definition from 1690 illustrates that a gradual shift in meaning had taken place.

However, Ussher also wrote extensively on theology, patristics and ecclesiastical history, and these subjects gradually displaced his anti-Catholic work.

Other sources Others who wrote of Saint Ninian used the accounts of Bede, Aelred, or Ussher, or used derivatives of them in combination with information from various manuscripts.

Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

Ussher's last extra-biblical co-ordinate was the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, and beyond this point he had to rely on other considerations.

Ussher was a convinced Calvinist and viewed with dismay the possibility that people he regarded as anti-Christian papists might achieve any sort of power.

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.