The College Historical Society (CHS) – popularly referred to as The Hist – is a debating society at Trinity College Dublin. It was established within the college in 1770 and was inspired by the club formed by the philosopher Edmund Burke during his own time in Trinity in 1747. It holds the Guinness World Record as the "world's oldest student society".
Franc Sadleir [formerly Francis] (1775–1851) was an Irish academic and Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1837.
Humphrey Lloyd FRS FRSE MRIA (1800–1881) was an Irish physicist. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (1831-1843) and much later Provost (1867–1881). Lloyd is known for experimentally verifying conical refraction, a theoretical prediction made by William Rowan Hamilton about the way light is bent when travelling through a biaxial crystal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and President of both the British Association and the Royal Irish Academy.
Robert Dougatt (1683–1730) was an Anglican priest and librarian in Ireland in the first half of the 18th-century.
Brabazon William Disney was an Irish Dean in the middle of the 19th century.
Valentine French, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Prebendary of Cork, was an eighteenth century Irish Anglican priest: he was Dean of Ross, Ireland from 1717 until 1739.
Anthony Martin was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the first half of the 17th-century.
George Dames Burtchaell, KC, MA, LLB, MRIA, JP was an Irish genealogist.
James Verschoyle, LL.D. (1747–1834) was an Irish Anglican bishop.
John French was an Anglican priest in Ireland.
William Warburton was an Anglican priest in Ireland.
Henry Roper was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 19th century.
Sir Philip Hoby, 5th Baronet was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland during the 18th century.
The Ven. Walter Thomas was a Church of Ireland priest in the first half of the 18th century.
Frederick Owen (Dean of Leighlin) (1800-1895) was an Irish Anglican priest.
Arthur William Edwards was a nineteenth century Anglican priest.
Edward Bayly (1709-1785) was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland during the 18th century. He was the son of Sir Edward Bayly, 1st Baronet, an Irish landowner and politician, and Dorothy, daughter of the Hon. Oliver Lambart.
William Bulkeley was an Anglican priest in the 17th century.
Martin Baxter was an Irish Anglican priest.
Owen LLoyd (1664–1738) was an Irish Anglican priest.
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