James Wilson (Dean of Tuam)

Last updated

James Wilson was an Irish Anglican clergyman. [1]

Wilson was vicar general of the Diocese of Elphin [2] and also its archdeacon [3] from 1665 until 1688. He was provost of Tuam from 1667 to 1669, when he was appointed dean of its cathedral.

Related Research Articles

Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and one of two official languages, along with the Irish language.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Wilde</span> Irish surgeon and writer

Sir William Robert Wills Wilde FRCSI was an Anglo-Irish oto-ophthalmologic surgeon and the author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland. He was the father of Oscar Wilde.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernest Walton</span> Irish physicist (1903–1995)

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics who first split the atom. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator. In experiments performed at Cambridge University in the early 1930s using the generator, Walton and Cockcroft became the first team to use a particle beam to transform one element to another. According to their Nobel Prize citation: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trevor Joyce</span> Irish poet (born 1947)

Trevor Joyce is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Dillon</span> Irish politician; the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (1851–1927)

John Dillon was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political disposition, Dillon was an advocate of Irish nationalism, originally a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell, supporting land reform and Irish Home Rule.

James Duffy was a prominent Irish author and publisher. Duffy's business would become one of the major publishers of Irish nationalist books, bibles, magazines, Missals and religious texts throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. He was also a major publisher of Irish fiction. He was described as having "invented a new kind of cosy family Catholicism."

The 1890 Home Nations Championship was the eighth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 1 February and 15 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The 1891 Home Nations Championship was the ninth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 3 January and 7 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The 1905 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-third series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 14 January and 18 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The 1906 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-fourth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 13 January and 17 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The 1907 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-fifth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 12 January and 16 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Keith Jeffery</span> Northern Irish historian (1952-2016)

Keith John Jeffery MRIA was a Northern Irish historian specialising in modern British, British Imperial, and Irish history.

James Wilson (1780-1857) was an Irish bishop of the Church of Ireland.

David Frederick Ruddell Wilson (1871–1957) was an Irish Anglican priest and hymnist. He was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in the Church of Ireland in the second quarter of the 20th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Sterne (bishop of Dromore)</span> Irish clergyman

John Sterne (1660–1745) was an Irish Church of Ireland clergyman, bishop of Dromore from 1713 and then bishop of Clogher from 1717.

Lady Katherine Sophia Kane was an Irish botanist, best known for her book on Irish flowering plants The Irish Flora (1833).

Anthony Martin was an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest who served as Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1645 to 1650. during the first half of the 17th-century.

Thomas George Wilson FRCSI FRCSE FRCS FACS FRSM MRIA HRHA was an eminent Anglo-Irish surgeon and medical administrator specialising in otorhinolaryngology, a field to which he made significant contributions. Wilson was also an accomplished author, artist and sailor. He was known as "T.G." and was a leading figure in Dublin society until his sudden death in 1969.

Crinus Irwin was an Anglican priest in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, most notably Archdeacon of Ossory from 1822 until his death on 17 December 1859.

Robert Wilson was a 17th-century Anglican Dean in Ireland.

References

  1. "The History of Ireland:The Barony of Doyle From the Earliest Period to the Year 1245" D'Alton,J p 93: [Dublin,M.H. Gill 1845
  2. Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. pp170/1 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  3. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.