Thomas Sterling Berry (10 January 1854 – 25 February 1931) was the 9th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh. Born in

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, in 1854, the son of Rev. William Winslow Sterling and Jane Langley, he attended Portarlington School, his father ministered in St. Paul's (French Church). Educated at

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(BA 1875, BD 1878, MA 1882, DD 1884) A noted scholar he won Archbishop King's and Bishop Forster's Prizes in 1875, Elrington,

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, and the Downes Prizes in 1876, also the Divinity Test and Theology Exhibition in 1876. He was

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in 1877, and his first posts were

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at Christ Church,

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(1877–1879) and

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(1879–1884;). Later he held incumbencies at Birr(1884–1892) serving also as prebend/Canon Tulloh(1890–1892) and

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(1892–1913) before his ordination to the

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in 1913.
He died in post when in Queenstown(Cobh), Co. Cork in 1931. Berry authored ''Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparison and a Contrast''. The book rejected the idea of

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. His eldest son Dr. Winslow Seymour Sterling Berry B.A. M.B. B.Ch., B.A.O., served as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corp serving with the 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, during the Great War, later in life he served as the Irish Governments Deputy Chief Medical Advisor, and later registrar of the

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.In Search of a Broadminded Saint: The Westmorland Lock Hospital in the Twentieth Century
by Susannah Riordan Irish Economic and Social History, vol. 39, 2012, pp. 73–93.

Selected publications

''Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparison and a Contrast''
(1890)

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* 1854 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Killaloe and Clonfert 1931 deaths People from Portarlington, County Laois Christian clergy from County Laois {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub