Charles Thornton Primrose Grierson was an eminent Irish clergyman in the first third of the 20th century. Gaining an MA, then ordained in 1881, he began his career with a curacy at Kells, after which he was

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of Stradbally and then Seapatrick,

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. Promotion to be Dean of

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followed; after which he was elevated to the episcopate as the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore. Works. He contributed to the monumental "Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels" 1908 edited by Hastings. Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grierson, Charles Thornton Primrose 1857 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Belfast 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Down, Connor and Dromore 1935 deaths