Robert Devenish (Dean of Cashel)

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

1. 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.
2. A New History of Ireland. Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, A.: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
3. "The Irish Church." The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, 22 December 1874; Issue 56138
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 395: London, Horace Cox, 1908
5. "John Graham Devenish". Medal Society of Ireland. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
6. Burke's Landed Gentry Of Ireland. 1912. p. 187. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
7. "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