John Phair

The Rt Rev John Percy Phair was a 20th-century Anglican Bishop.[1]

Born on 1 November 1876 [2] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin he was ordained in 1900. He held curacies in Conwall, Dublin and Monkstown and incumbencies in St Catherine's Dublin and Christ Church Leeson Park. He was Rural Dean of Rathdowney [3] and then Dean of Ossory (1923–1940) [4] before becoming Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in 1940.[5] He retired in 1961; and died on 28 December 1967.

Notes

  1. ↑ “Handbook of British Chronology” By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 052156350X, 9780521563505
  2. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  4. ↑ St Canice’s Cathedral and Round Tower
  5. ↑ “A New History of Ireland ”Moody,T.M; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0198217455


Religious titles
Preceded by
Ford Tichborne		 Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin
June 1940 – June 1961 		Succeeded by
Henry Robert McAdoo