Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (born 1777)

Patrick Brontë

Irish Anglican clergyman and writer

Patrick Brontë was an Irish Anglican minister and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, Maria Branwell, by forty years, by which…