Ralph Ironside was Archdeacon of Dorset[1] from 1671 until 1683.[2] He was the son of Ralph Ironside, rector of Long Bredy, Dorset, and the younger brother of Gilbert Ironside, Bishop of Bristol. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford[3] and later held incumbencies at Netherbury and Long Bredy. He died on 5 March 1683, being buried at Long Bredy.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Richard Meredith
Archdeacon of Dorset
1671–1683
Succeeded by
John Feilding

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  1. ^ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fordingtondorset/Files2/AllSaintsBurials1653-1709.html Dorchester All Saints Church Burials 1613 - 1730
  2. ^ 'Archdeacons: Dorset', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1996), pp. 19-20 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol8/pp19-20 [accessed 20 January 2015].
  3. ^ 'Ibbetson-Izod', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 785-792 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp785-792 [accessed 22 January 2015]