Richard Hood (4 July 1769 – 20 November 1836) was an

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest in Ireland during the first decades of the 19th century. Hood was born in Queen's County (now Laois) and educated at

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 ...

. He was

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of Gort then

Dean of Kilmacduagh The Dean of Kilmacduagh was the priest in charge of the Diocese's Cathedral, Kilmacduagh monastery." Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ: The Succession of the Prelates, Volume 4" Cotton, H pp202-205: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1851 Deans of Kilmacduagh * ...

from 1823 until his death."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p204: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878

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Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Kilmacduagh 19th-century Irish Anglican priests 1823 deaths 1760 births Christian clergy from County Laois {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub