Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Este, Charles
ESTE, CHARLES, D.D. (1696–1745), bishop of Waterford, son of Michael Este of St. Margaret's, Westminster, was born in Whitehall in 1696. He entered Westminster School as a queen's scholar, and matriculated as a student at Christ Church, Oxford, 1715, proceeding to the two degrees in arts in 1719 and 1722 respectively. While still at Oxford he edited in 1723 ‘Carmina quadragesimalia ab ædis Christi Oxon. alumnis composita et ab ejusdem ædis Baccalaureis determinantibus in scholâ naturalis philosophiæ publice recitata,’ his own contributions to which will be found on pp. 108-9 and 132. Having taken orders he was appointed chaplain to Archbishop Boulter, whom he accompanied to Ireland in 1724. On 9 Jan. 1726 he was collated on the presentation of Boulter to the rectory of Derrynoose, co. Armagh, and in 1730 he was nominated to the archdeaconry of Armagh and the rectories of Aghallow, Killeshill, and Caranteal. In 1733 he resigned these appointments for the chancellorship of Armagh and the rectory of Kilmore, on which living he expended a large sum of money. On the bishopric of Ossory falling vacant he was raised to that see through the influence of Boulter with the Duke of Newcastle, and was enthroned at Kilkenny 1 March 1736. To the episcopal palace at that place he made great additions. He proceeded D.D. at Dublin University 9 May 1736. In October 1740 he was advanced to the see of Waterford. Ha died 29 Nov. 1745. There is a portrait of Este in the hall at Christ Church, Oxford.
[Welch's List of Queen's Scholars at Westminster, p. 226; Cotton's Fasti Eccles. Hibern. i. 14, ii. 284, iii. 47.]