Henry O'Hara

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 around the start of the 20th 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] He had married Hatton Thomasina, the daughter of Thomas Scott of Willsboro. ^[9]

References

1. ↑ 'Hara%2C%20Henry%20Stewart%2C%201843-1923 National Library of Ireland
2. ↑ Handbook of British Chronology by Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E; Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996, ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505
3. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
4. ↑ “ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS . The Standard (London, England), Thursday, July 12, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 21848. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
5. ↑ Belfast Cathedral
6. ↑ "A New History of Ireland” by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
7. ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Kellys, 1913
8. ↑ The Times, Thursday, Dec 27, 1923; pg. 5; Issue 43533; col G Deaths
9. ↑ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke