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Stephen Creagh Sandes (1778-1842) was a
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in the 19th century. A
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of
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, he was
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in 1807. He was consecrated Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 12 June 1836 and
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to Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore in February 1839. He died on 13 November 1842.DUBLIN: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1842 .Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Wednesday, November 16, 1842 He was the son of William Sandes and Margaret Creagh. He was born at Sallow Glen, near Tarbert, County Kerry, where the Sandes family had been settled for several generations. He married Mary Anne Dickson, daughter of Samuel Dickson of
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, and they had four children. Among his students at Trinity College was the eminent
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and author Gerald Fitzgibbon, who remembered with gratitude that it was Sandes who advised him, despite his lack of money or influential connections (Fitzgibbon was a small farmer's son), to persist in a career in the law. A much younger cousin, who was also named Stephen Creagh Sandes, was the father of Elise Sandes, founder of a welfare movement for soldiers which survives today.


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Fellows of Trinity College Dublin 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Killaloe and Clonfert Bishops of Cashel and Waterford 1842 deaths Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Year of birth unknown 1778 births People from Tarbert, County Kerry Christian clergy from County Kerry {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub