Richard Randall Hartford (21 September 1904 – 7 August 1962) was

Regius Professor of Divinity The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College Dublin. The Oxford and Cambridge chairs were founded by ...

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 Unive ...

from 1957 until his death. Hartford was educated at

Kilkenny College Kilkenny College is a Church of Ireland co-educational day and boarding secondary school located in Kilkenny, in the South-East of Ireland. It is the largest co-educational boarding school in Ireland. In 2013 it transferred to the state/public se ...

; and

. He was Scholar of the House in 1926; won the Downes Prize for Written Composition in 1927; and the Large Gold Medal in 1928. He was

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in 1928. He was a curate at SS Philip and James,

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from 1928 to 1931; and a

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from 1930 to 1935. He became a

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at TCD in 1931. and was Archbishop King Professor of Divinity in Dublin University from 1936 to 1957. He was a

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of St Patricks (Prebendary of Maynooth) from 1945 to 1957, and chancellor from 1957. His father in law was Archbishop Arthur Barton.Moody, Theodore William, ''A New History of Ireland'' p. 406: Cork, RTÉ, 1984

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1904 births 1962 deaths 20th-century Irish Anglican priests Regius Professors of Divinity (University of Dublin) People educated at Kilkenny College Academics of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-academic-bio-stub