William Greene (Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin)

William Conyngham Greene was an Anglican priest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.^[1]

Greene was born on 19 October 1827, son of Richard Wilson Greene, judge of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) and Elizabeth Wilson.^[2] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1850.^[3] He was a curate at St Anne's Dublin and then held four successive Dublin incumbencies; St Peter's, St Michael's, St John's and St Werburgh's. In 1987 he became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, a post he held for 21 years. He died on 9 August 1910.^[4] His nephew was the diplomat Sir Conyngham Greene.

References

1. ↑ "Greene, Very Rev. William Conyngham", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 Accessed 18 July 2012
2. ↑ Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour p. 140
3. ↑ The Standard "Ireland" (London, England), Friday, December 27, 1850; Issue 8230
4. ↑ "The Very Rev. W. Conyngham Greene", The Times, (London, England), 12 August 1910, p. 9.