Robert Heavener
The Right Reverend Robert William Heavener (28 February 1905 – 8 March 2005) was an Irish Anglican bishop and author. Among other works he wrote Co. Fermanagh: a short topographical and historical account (1940); Diskos (1970); Spare My Tortured People (1983), and Credo (1993); some or all of these were written under the nom de plume Robert Cielou.[1][2]
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1929. [3] He married Ada Marjorie Dagg in 1936; the couple had two children. After serving curacies at Clones and Lack, he became Rector of Derryvullen and then Rural Dean of Monaghan. He was Archdeacon of Clogher from 1968-73, when he was named Bishop of Clogher.[4]
Death
He retired from religious life in 1980 and died on 8 March 2005, aged 100.
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| Preceded by Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson |
Bishop of Clogher 1980–1986 |
Succeeded by Gordon McMullan |
Notes
- ↑ British Library website accessed 13:03 GMT 13 February 2011
- ↑ Who's Who 1996: London, A & C Black, 1996 ISBN 0-7136-4255-6
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1975-76: Lambeth, Church House, 1975; ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ↑ Handbook of British Chronology by Fryde, Greenway, Porter and Roy: Cambridge, CUP, 1996; ISBN 0-521-56350-X, ISBN 0-7136-4255-6
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