Hugh Jackson Lawlor (11 December 1860 – 26 December 1938) was an
Irish
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* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
Anglican
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priest and author. He is best remembered for his term as
Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
Hugh Jackson Lawlor was born in
Ballymena
Ballymena ( ; from ga, an Baile Meánach , meaning 'the middle townland') is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is part of the Borough of Mid and East Antrim.
The town is built on land given to the Adair family by King Charles I i ...
,
Co Antrim
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. He was educated at
Drogheda Grammar School
Drogheda Grammar School is an Irish co-educational multi-denominational school, located on Mornington Road, Drogheda, County Louth.
History
Drogheda Grammar School was founded under Royal Charter in 1669 by Erasmus Smith and is one of the ol ...
,
Rathmines School
Rathmines School was a secondary school in the suburb of Rathmines, Dublin: it opened in 1855 and closed in 1899. In all 2,190 pupils attended the school.
Notable pupils
* Edward Vaughan Boulger (1846– 11 August 1910), Professor of Classics in ...
,
Dublin
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and
Trinity College Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
, motto_lang = la
, motto_English = It will last i ...
from where he graduated with BA in mathematics in 1882, getting his MA in 1885. For a while in the 1880s, he was an examiner in mathematics for the Intermediate Board of Education. He was a curate at Christ Church, Kingstown (modern day
Dunleary) from 1885 to 1893 then an assistant to Archbishop King’s Lecturer in Divinity at the
University of Dublin
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. He was
Senior Chaplain of
St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh from 1893 to 1898 and then
Professor
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of