Henry Stewart O’Hara (6 September 1843 – 11 December 1923) was an eminent

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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

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, a post he, Henry, was to hold from 1869 to 1894. Educated at Leicester Collegiate School and

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, he was ordained in 1867. While based in Coleraine, he was Chancellor of Connor Cathedral from 1884 to 1898. In 1894 he was appointed

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. In 1897 he became a

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, and in 1899 he became the first

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. 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

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by the

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on 24 February 1900. He was formally installed at

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, on 17 March 1900. He served as such until his retirement in 1919. Following his consecration as bishop, he received the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in ''Sacra Theologia'' from

in February 1900.

Biography

O'Hara married Hatton Thomasina Scott, eldest daughter of Thomas Scott of Willsboro (1783–1872) and his third wife Katharine Elizabeth Richardson, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Richardson of Somerset, co. Londonderry.A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke He died on 11 December 1923.

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, Thursday, December 27, 1923; pg. 5; Issue 43533; col G Deaths

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohara, Henry Stewart 1816 births People educated at Leicester Collegiate School Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Belfast 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Cashel and Waterford 1923 deaths