George Tottenham (20 October 1825 – 20 October 1911) was
Dean of Clogher from 1900 to 1903.
He was the 10th son of
Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus,
Bishop of Clogher from 1822 to 1850, and the Hon. Alicia Maude, daughter of
Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden. He was educated at
Sherborne and
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Ordained
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in 1849, after
curacies in
Donaghmore and
Tynan he was
Rector of
Inishmacsaint.
[‘TOTTENHAM, Very Rev. George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, ]Oxford University Press
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/ref> He was also Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and was made a Freeman of Dublin in 1861. He married Emily Frances Maclean, the eldest surviving daughter of Rev. William Maclean, Prebendary
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of Tynan, County Armagh. Together, they had seven children, only one of whom, Edward, went on to have children of his own.
References
1825 births
People educated at Sherborne School
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Deans of Clogher
1911 deaths
Place of birth missing
Christian clergy from County Tyrone
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