Norman David Emerson (10 July 1900 – 12 January 1966) was an

Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

and author. Emerson was born in

Lurgan Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and roughly southwest of Belfast. The town is linked to Belfast by both the M1 motorway (Northern Ireland), M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin rail ...

and educated at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

. He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

in 1924 and being a

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are as ...

at Drumcondra and

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he was the rector of St Mary's Dublin from 1933 to 1961"Emerson, Very Rev. Norman David", ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007
accessed 6 Aug 2012
/ref> when he became

Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin The Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin is dean and head of the chapter of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church Cathedral, which is the cathedral church of the United Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough in the Ch ...

, a position he held until his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Emerson, Norman David 1900 births 1966 deaths People from Lurgan Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Place of death missing 20th-century Irish Anglican priests Christian clergy from County Armagh