Robert William Heavener (28 February 1905 – 8 March 2005) was an Irish Anglican bishop and author. Among other works he wrote ''Co. Fermanagh: a short topographical and historical account'' (1940); ''Diskos'' (1970); ''Spare My Tortured People'' (1983), and ''Credo'' (1993); some or all of these were written under the

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Robert Cielou. He was 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 ...

and ordained in 1929. He married Ada Marjorie Dagg in 1936; the couple had two children. After serving curacies at

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and

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, he became Rector of Derryvullen and then

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. He was

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Clogher Clogher (; , ) is a village and civil parish in the border area of south County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Blackwater, 5.8 miles from the border crossing to County Monaghan. It stands on the townlands of Clogher Demesne ...

from 1968 to 1973, when he was named

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.''Handbook of British Chronology'' by Fryde, Greenway, Porter and Roy: Cambridge,

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, 1996; ,

Death

He retired from religious life in 1980 and died on 8 March 2005, aged 100.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Heavener, Robert William 1905 births 2005 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Clogher Irish men centenarians 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Clogher (Church of Ireland) 20th-century Irish writers Place of birth missing