Edgeworth Henry Essex

Edgeworth, Henry Essex (1745-1807), commonly known as the Abbe Edgeworth, was the son of a Protestant clergyman at Edgeworthstown, Ireland. The father became Catholic, and migrated with his family to Toulouse. Here trie son studied, and finally entered the priesthood. In 1792 he became confessor of the Princess Elizabeth, and in 1793 to Louis XVI., in this capacity attending the king to the foot of the scaffold. After the king's death the Abb6 escaped to England, and was afterwards chaplain of Louis XVIII. at Mittau, at which place he died of fever.