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Irish Anglican priest
Robert Jones Sylvester Devenish (6 December 1850
[1] – 16 September 1916) was an
Irish
Anglican
priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
[2]
He was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin and
ordained in 1874.
[3] After a curacy at St Patrick,
Waterford he was
Vicar of
Cahir from 1874 to 1881.
[4] He married Rosamond Price on 5 February 1877:
[5] they had a daughter and three sons, one of whom was
Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish, Archdeacon of Lahore .
[6] He was
Prebendary of
Rossduff in
Waterford Cathedral from 1883 to 1886;
Archdeacon of Waterford from 1886 to 1913; and
Dean of
Cashel from 1913 until his death.
[7]
References
^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1862).
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland . Harrison. p. 364. Retrieved 27 June 2018 .
^ A New History of Ireland . Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, A.: Oxford, OUP, 1976
ISBN
0-19-821745-5
^ "The Irish Church." The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, 22 December 1874; Issue 56138
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 395: London, Horace Cox, 1908
^
"John Graham Devenish" . Medal Society of Ireland. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2020 .
^
Burke's Landed Gentry Of Ireland . 1912. p. 187. Retrieved 27 June 2018 .
^ "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