Richard Betts was an Anglican priest.
Betts was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King James I & VI. He was appointed Bishop of Kilfenora by letters patent on 19 September 1628, but who, when he arrived in Ireland and learned of the poverty of the see, declined the appointment and left without consecration.
Notes
- "Clare Places – Kilfenora: Historical Background". clarelibrary.ie. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
- Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
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