Henry Stewart O’Hara (1843–1923) was an eminent Church of Ireland priest[1] in the last decades of the 19th century and the early ones of the 20th.[2]
O’Hara was born on 6 September 1843 into an ecclesiastical family: his father was for many years Rector of Coleraine,[3] a post he himself was to hold from 1869 to 1894. Educated at Leicester Collegiate School and Trinity College, Dublin he was Vicar of Belfast from 1894[4] (and its first dean) [5] until the turn of the century. He was then Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore,[6] until his retirement in 1919.[7]
He died on 11 December 1923.[8]
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Preceded by Inaugural appointment |
Dean of Belfast 1894–1899 |
Succeeded by Charles Frederick D'Arcy |
Preceded by Maurice FitzGerald Day |
Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore 1900–1919 |
Succeeded by Robert Miller |
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