Dive Downes

Dive Downes (b Thornby, Northamptonshire 1652 – d Dublin 1709) was Bishop of Cork and Ross from 1699 to 1709.

Downes was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1678. In 1683 he became a prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and in 1690 Archdeacon of Dublin.