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Dean Of Raphoe
The Dean of Raphoe is based at the St Eunan's Cathedral, Raphoe, Cathedral Church of St Eunan in Raphoe, County Donegal, in Ulster. The Deanery is within the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe within the Church of Ireland. The Dean-elect is Rev Liz Fitzgerald, the first female dean in the cathedral’s history. List of deans *1603 John Albright *1609 Phelim O'Doghertie *1622–1630 Archibald Adair (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1630) *1630–1660 Alexander Cunningham (priest), Alexander Cunningham *1660/1–1661 John Leslie (bishop of Clogher), John Leslie (afterwards Bishop of Clogher, 1661) *1661–1670 John Wellwood *1670–1671 Ezekiel Hopkins (afterwards Bishop of Raphoe, 1671) *1671 Thomas Buttolph *1676–1683 Capel Wiseman (afterwards Bishop of Dromore, 1683) *1683/4–1691/2 Nathanael Wilson (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, 1691/2) *1691/2–1725 John Trench *1725–1742/3 William Cotterell (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1742/3) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capel Wiseman
Capel Wiseman was an English Anglican priest in Ireland in the second half of the seventeenth century: Wiseman was educated at New College, Oxford. He was Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772 until 1776 when he was appointed Dean of Raphoe. In 1783 he became Bishop of Dromore The Bishop of Dromore is an episcopal title which takes its name after the original monastery of Dromore in County Down, Northern Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church the title still continues as a separate bishopric, but in the Church of Irela ..., a post he held until his death in September 1694."Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p282 Cotton, H :Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1878 References Anglican bishops of Dromore Deans of Raphoe 1694 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford Place of birth missing Year of birth missing {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gwynn (priest)
John Gwynn (28 August 1827 – 3 April 1917) was an Irish Syriacist. He was Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin from 1888 to 1907.''Burke’s Irish Family Records'', Burke’s Peerage Ltd., 1976. Biography John Gwynn (1827–1917) was born in Larne, the eldest son of the Reverend Stephen Gwynne (1792–1873). The Gwynne family had been settled in Ulster since the 17th century. The spelling of the family surname had varied throughout the earlier years; it was John Gwynn, the subject of this article, who settled on "Gwynn" with no "e". John's grandfather John Gwynne (1761–1852) had studied at Trinity College Dublin. after taking a degree in Divinity he was ordained and became Rector of Kilroot near Carrickfergus, County Antrim. His elder son Stephen (1792–1873), John Gwynn's father, followed a similar career route, graduating from Trinity College Dublin and becoming Rector of Larne, County Antrim, and then Rector of Portstewart, County Londonderry. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess Of Donegall
Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess of Donegall (11 June 1799 – 20 January 1889), was a clergyman who late in life became an Irish peer. From 1831 until October 1883, he was known as The Very Rev. Lord Edward Chichester. He was the son of the 2nd Marquess of Donegall. Born in Great Cumberland Place, Westminster, Chichester was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), where he graduated BA in 1822. As a younger son, he became a minister of the Church of Ireland and served as Dean of Raphoe from 1831 to 1871. In 1853, his older brother's only surviving son, Frederick Richard Chichester, Earl of Belfast (1827–1853), died unmarried in Naples, leaving Lord Edward as the heir presumptive to the marquessate. In October 1883, at the age of 84, he finally succeeded his 86-year-old elder brother and became the 4th Marquess of Donegall. He died six years later in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London. On 21 September 1821, he marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Allott
Richard Allott junior (1782/3–1858) was an Anglo-Irish cleric and academic, known as a librarian and a musician at Armagh Cathedral, where he earned the nickname "Fiddling Dick", and as a music collector. Richard Allott senior Richard Allott senior (1744/5–1832), his father, was the third son of Brian Allott (1693–1773), Rector of Kirkheaton; he was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Towards the end of his life he was in Switzerland, and he died at Beau-Rivage, Lausanne, aged 87. Early life Allott was educated Beverley Grammar School. He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1762, graduating B.A. there in 1766, and M.A. in 1769. He took degrees of B.D. (1776) and D.D. (1783) at Trinity College, Dublin. Cleric Ordained deacon in 1767, Allott became rector of Annaduff in Ireland. From 1771 to 1774 he was a prebendary of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam. From 1774 he was precentor in Armagh Cathedral, as his son more prominently wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James King (priest)
James King (1715–1795) was a Canon of Windsor from 1774 to 1776 and Dean of Raphoe from 1776 to 1795. Family and early career He was the only surviving son of Thomas King, of Kirkby Malham, Yorkshire, where the family had lived since Rev. Robert King had arrived there as minister in 1573, in the aftermath of the Rising of the North. He attended Ripon Grammar School with his cousin, Fletcher Norton, and then accompanied Norton to St John’s College, Cambridge, where they matriculated in the summer of 1734. He took his B.A. in 1738 and was ordained to a curacy at Hamerton, Huntingdonshire. Two years later he was ordained priest and the following year took his M.A. and moved to another curacy at Barrow upon Soar in Leicestershire. In 1743 he was appointed by Sir Nathaniel Curzon to the perpetual curacy of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Clitheroe, Lancashire. In 1744 he married his cousin, Anne Walker, of Hungerhill, Yorkshire, and they had a family of five sons and one daughter. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bray (canon)
Thomas Bray DD (21 March 1706 – 28 March 1785) was a Canon of Windsor from 1776 to 1785. Family He was from Stratton, Cornwall. Career He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford graduating BA in 1729, Fellow in 1731, MA in 1732, BD in 1743, and DD in 1758. In 1754 he took an active part in the Oxfordshire election which resulted in Lord Macclesfield appointing him to the Rectory of Bixband.The Gentleman's Magazine, 1785 Volume 55, Part 1, p.324 He was appointed: *Rector of Bixband 1754 *Rector of Exeter College, Oxford 1771 *Dean of Raphoe 1777 *Rector of Dunsfold 1776 *Rector of Exeter College, Oxford 1771-1785 He was appointed to the third stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal peculiar, Royal Peculia ... in 1776, a position he held until 1785. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Derry
The Dean of Derry is based at St Columb's Cathedral, Derry in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe in the Church of Ireland. The current Dean of Derry is Raymond Stewart. He was appointed to the cathedral in December 2016 and inaugurated on 28 March 2017 by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Kenneth Good. Stewart succeeded William Morton who served as Dean of Derry for almost 20 years and then took on role as Dean of St Patricks Cathedral in Dublin in September 2016. Deans of Derry * 1611/2 William Webbe * 1621–1635 Henry Sutton (afterwards Dean of Limerick, 1635) * 1635–1637 Michael Wandesford * 1637/8–1639 James Margetson (afterwards Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 1639) * 1639/40 Geoffrey Rhodes * 1661 George Beaumont * 1663 George Holland * 1670–1671 William Lightburne * 1671/2 John Lesley * 1672 Peter Manby (converted to Roman Catholic but remained dean) * 1690–1690 Peter Morris * 1690/1–1695 Thomas Wallis * 1695–1699/1700 Coote Ormsby * 1699/1700 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Smyth
Arthur Smyth (19 February 1706 – 14 December 1771) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1766 until his death in 1771.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). ''Handbook of British Chronology'' (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 391. . Family Smyth was the son of Thomas Smyth, Bishop of Limerick, and Dorothea Burgh (daughter of Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh). His brothers included Charles Smyth, MP for Limerick, and the lawyer George Smyth.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 Career Smyth studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and completed his studies in Oxford. He was Dean of Raphoe from 1742 until 1744, then Dean of Derry until 1752. He was then raised to the episcopate as Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh (1752), Down and Connor (1753) and Meath (1765), prior to his nomination as Archbishop of Dublin. In 1767 he was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland His or Her Majesty's Privy Counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Ferns And Leighlin
The Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin was the Ordinary of Church of Ireland diocese of Ferns and Leighlin in the Province of Dublin. The diocese comprised all of counties Wexford and Carlow and part of counties Wicklow and Laois in Ireland. The Episcopal see was a union of the bishoprics of Ferns and Leighlin which were united in 1597. Over two hundred and thirty-eight years, there were twenty-nine bishops of the united diocese. Under the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833 ( 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 37), Ferns and Leighlin were combined with Ossory to form the united bishopric of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin on 12 July 1835.Fryde, ibid., p. 404. List of Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin See also * Bishop of Ferns * Bishop of Leighlin The Lord Bishop of Leighlin was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the small town of Old Leighlin in County Carlow, Ireland. The title is now united with other bishoprics. In the Church of Ireland, it is held by the Lord Bis ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cotterell
William Cotterell (c.1698–1744) was an eighteenth-century Church of Ireland priest. He was the third son of the courtier Charles Lodowick Cotterell and his second wife, Elizabeth Chute. Cotterell was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, admitted in 1716 at age 18, and at Trinity College Dublin. He was ordained in 1724 by John Potter. Cotterell was Dean of Raphoe from 1725 until 1743; and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin from then until his death on 21 June 1744."A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove Art Cosgrove, (born 1 June 1940) in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, was president of University College Dublin (UCD) between 1994 and 2003. Education He was educated at the Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Newry. He graduated fro ...: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 References 17th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Ferns and Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Trench
John Trenchwas an eighteenth-century English Anglican priest in Ireland: he was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and was Dean of Raphoe The Dean of Raphoe is based at the St Eunan's Cathedral, Raphoe, Cathedral Church of St Eunan in Raphoe, County Donegal, in Ulster. The Deanery is within the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe within the Church of Ireland. The Dean-elect is Rev Liz Fi ... from 21 January 1692 until his death on 24 June 1725."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p662: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 References 17th-century Irish Anglican priests 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Deans of Raphoe Alumni of Magdalen Hall, Oxford 17th-century births Year of birth unknown 1725 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-dean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
