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Robert Miller (bishop)
Robert Miller (1866–1931) was a Church of Ireland bishop in the first half of the 20th century. Miller was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained for Christ Church Derry in 1892. He was Rector of Donegal from 1894 to 1900. After a further incumbency at Raphoe he was Secretary of the Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in Ireland until 1916. He was Dean of Waterford The Dean of Waterford in the United Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory in the Church of Ireland is the dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford. List of deans of Waterford *?–1223 William Wace (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1223) *?–1252 P ... from then until 1919, when he became Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore- a post he held until his death on 13 March 1931. He accompanied the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin John Gregg and Protestant businessman Sir William Goulding "to see Michael Collins in May 1922, following the murders of thirteen Protestants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Waterford
The Dean of Waterford in the United Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory in the Church of Ireland is the dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford. List of deans of Waterford *?–1223 William Wace (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1223) *?–1252 Philip (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1252) *?–1286 Walter de Fulburn (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1286) *1308 David le Waleys *?–1323 Nicholas Welifed (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1323) *1365 Walter la Reve *1372 Lucas de Londres *1379 Jo. Reder *1395 Walter de Ludlow *1396 William Whyte *1459 John Collyn''Patent Roll 37 Henry VI'' *1481 Robert Bron or Brown *1522–1547 Robert Lombard *1547–1566 Patrick Walsh (made Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 1551, retaining deanery ''in commendam'' until 1566) *1566–1570 Peter White (dispossessed for nonconformity) *1570–? David Cleere *1603–1620 Richard Boyle (also Archdeacon of Limerick and Dean of Tuam and afterwards Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 1620) *1621 Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deans Of Waterford
Deans may refer to: People * Austen Deans (1915–2011), New Zealand painter and war artist * Colin Deans (born 1955), Scottish rugby union player * Craig Deans (born 1974), Australian football (soccer) player * Diane Deans (born 1958), Canadian politician * Dixie Deans (born 1946), Scottish football player (Celtic) * Ian Deans (1937–2016), Canadian politician * Kathryn Deans, Australian author * Mickey Deans (1934–2003), fifth and last husband of Judy Garland * Ray Deans (born 1966), Scottish football player * Robbie Deans (born 1959), New Zealand rugby coach and former player * Steven Deans (born 1982), ice hockey player * Tommy Deans (1922–2000), Scottish football (soccer) player * More than one Dean Places * Deans, New Jersey * Deans, West Lothian Deans is a small community within the town of Livingston, West Lothian, Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. Deans is situated in the northern part of Livingston, The western area of Deans was formerly known as Livingston Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of Trinity College Dublin
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating ( Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*hâ‚‚el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frederick McNeice
John Frederick MacNeice (1866–1942), was born at Omey, Co. Galway, to a Protestant family which claimed descent from the kin of the early Irish saint MacNissi. Opting for the Church of Ireland ministry he served notably as rector of Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim and afterwards as bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore (1931–1934) and until his death as bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore (1934–1942). MacNeice is well known for his symbolic opposition to the Partition of Ireland (accepted as a political reality): hence his refusal to allow the Union Flag to be laid on Carson's grave at his funeral in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast in 1935. MacNeice was twice married. One of his sons by his first marriage was the poet, Louis MacNeice Frederick Louis MacNeice (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was wid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Stewart O'Hara
Henry Stewart O’Hara (6 September 1843 – 11 December 1923) was an eminent Church of Ireland bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Church appointments O’Hara was born on 6 September 1843 into an ecclesiastical family. His father was Rector of Coleraine, a post he, Henry, was to hold from 1869 to 1894. Educated at Leicester Collegiate School and Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1867. While based in Coleraine, he was Chancellor of Connor Cathedral from 1884 to 1898. In 1894 he was appointed Vicar of Belfast. In 1897 he became a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and in 1899 he became the first dean of Belfast. In a meeting of the Bench of Bishops of the Church of Ireland on 6 February 1900, he was elected Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore, and he was consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Dublin at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 24 February 1900. He was formally installed at Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, on 17 March 1900. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Goulding, 1st Baronet
Sir William Joshua Goulding, 1st Baronet (7 March 1856 – 12 July 1925) was an Anglo-Irish business magnate, Irish unionist politician and rugby player. He was a member of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland. Early life and family Goulding was born in Cork, the son of William Goulding, Conservative Member of Parliament for Cork City, and his second wife Maria Heath Manders. He was educated in Cork before attending St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a masters in 1883. In 1875 Goulding's father employed John Pentland Mahaffy to take his son on a Grand Tour to Italy and Greece, for part of which they travelled with Oscar Wilde. His younger brother, Edward Goulding, was raised to the peerage as Baron Wargrave in 1922. In 1881 he married Ada Stokes, daughter of Charles Lingard Stokes of Pauntley, Worcester. He had property in Dublin and County Kildare. Business career After graduating Goulding returned to Ireland and joined the family fertilizer and phosphates firm, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gregg (archbishop Of Armagh)
John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg CH (1873–1961) was a Church of Ireland clergyman, from 1915 Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, in 1920 translated to become Archbishop of Dublin, and finally from 1939 until 1959 Archbishop of Armagh. He was also a theologian and historian. Life Gregg was born at North Cerney, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom on 4 July 1873. His elder sister, Hilda Gregg was a popular novelist. He was educated at Bedford School, and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was a classical scholar and won the Hulsean Prize Essay competition for 1896 with ''The Decian Persecution''.Seaver, George, ''John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg, Archbishop'' (Faith Press, 1963), p. 10 Gregg graduated BA in 1895; MA 1898; BD 1910; BD (Dublin – ad eundem) 1911; DD (Dublin) 1913; DD (Cantab) – 1929, and was educated for the Anglican Ministry at Ridley Hall. He came from an Anglo-Irish family, which boasted a large number of Church of Ireland clergy within its rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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.https://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/ucd_presidents_6_cosgrove_2005.pdf He graduated from Queen's University of Belfast, Queen's University Belfast in 1961 with a first class honours BA in History, and attended the Institute of Historical Research, in London from 1961 to 1962. He was awarded his PhD by Queen's in 1971 and an Legum Doctor, LLD honoris causa in 1975 for distinction in historical work. In 2007 Cosgrove obtained the Barrister-at-Law degree qualification from King's Inns but declined to take the statutory Irish exams needed to be called to the Bar by the Chief Justice of Ireland. He took legal action over the issue. Cosgrove is understood to be fluent in Irish but feels that the exam required by legislation passed in 1929 to be inappropriate in 2007. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis John Byrne
Francis John Byrne (1934 – 30 December 2017) was an Irish historian. Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II. After the war, his mother returned to Ireland, where his father, who had survived internment in Japanese hands, returned to take up work as a harbour master. Byrne attended Blackrock College in County Dublin where he learned Latin and Greek, to add to the Chinese he had learned in his Shanghai childhood. He studied Early Irish History at University College Dublin where he excelled, graduating with first class honours. He studied Paleography and Medieval Latin in Germany, and then lectured on Celtic languages in Sweden, before returning to University College in 1964 to take up a professorship. Byrne's best known work is his ''Irish Kings and High-Kings'' (1973). He was joint editor of the Royal Irish Academy's ''New History of Ireland'' (9 v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
