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Irish Anglican clergyman and writer

This article is about the Irish clergyman and writer. For the English painter and author, see Branwell Brontë.

Patrick Brontë (, commonly;^[1] born Patrick Brunty; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) 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, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years, by which time all of their six children had died as well.

Early life

Brontë was born at Imdel (or Emdale) in the parish of Drumballyroney, County Down,^[2] the eldest of the ten children of Hugh Brunty, an Anglican, and Elinor Alice (née McClory), an Irish Catholic.^[3][4] His father was a "farmhand, fence-fixer, and road-builder".^[5] The family was "large and very poor", owning four books (including two copies of the Bib