Robert Devenish (Dean of Cashel)

Robert Jones Sylvester Devenish was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1]

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1874.[2] After a curacy at St Patrick, Waterford he was Vicar of Cahir from 1874 to 1881.[3] He married Rosamond Price on 5 February 1877:[4] they had a daughter[5] and three sons, one of whom was later Archdeacon of Lahore. He was Prebendary of Rossduff in Waterford Cathedral from1883 to 1886; Archdeacon of Waterford from 1886 to 1913; and Dean of Cashel from 1913 until his death on 16 September 1916.[6]

References

  1. ↑ “A New History of Ireland” Moody,T.W; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  2. ↑ ‘THE IRISH CHURCH’ The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, December 22, 1874; Issue 56138
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 395: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. ↑ Medal Society of Ireland
  5. ↑ thePeerage.com
  6. ↑ ‘DEVENISH, Very Rev. Robert Jones Sylvester’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 April 2014
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Maurice William Day		 Dean of Cashel
1913–1916 		Succeeded by
William Chadwick Bourchier


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