Waller de Montmorency (b and d

Knocktopher Knocktopher (historically ''Knocktofer'' and ''Knocktover''; ) is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is situated on the R713 road between the villages of Stoneyford to the north, and Ballyhale to the south. It was formerly situated on ...

; 1841 – 1924) was an

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in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most notably Archdeacon of Ossory from 1911 until his death. A graduate of

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

he was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

in 1866. He was the incumbent at

Kilsheelan Kilsheelan () is a village and civil parish within the in the barony of Iffa and Offa East in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is also one half of the Roman Catholic parish of Kilsheelan & Kilcash in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and ...

; and

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St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny St Canice's Cathedral ( ga, Ardeaglais Naomh Cainneach, ), also known as Kilkenny Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Kilkenny city, Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Previously the cathedral of the Dioc ...

. He died on 25 October 1924.‘de MONTMORENCY, Ven. Waller’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
accessed 7 Sept 2017
/ref> His son was a colonial administrator, twice Governor of the Punjab.

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* 1841 births Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Ossory 1924 deaths People from Knocktopher Christian clergy from County Kilkenny {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub