William Andrews, D.D. was an Anglican priest [1] and educationalist [2] in Ireland. [3]
Andrews was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [4] He was Head Master of Kilkenny College from 1702 to 1714; [5] and Archdeacon of Ossory from 1713 until 1736. [6]
The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is a learned society based in Ireland, whose aims are "to preserve, examine and illustrate all ancient monuments and memorials of the arts, manners and customs of the past, as connected with the antiquities, language, literature and history of Ireland". Founded in 1849, it has a countrywide membership from all four provinces of Ireland. Anyone subscribing to the aims of the Society, subject to approval by Council, may be elected to membership. Current and past members have included historians, archaeologists and linguists, but the Society firmly believes in the importance of encouraging an informed general public, and many members are non-professionals.
Kilkenny College is an independent Church of Ireland co-educational day and boarding secondary school located in Kilkenny, in the South-East of Ireland. It is the largest co-educational boarding school in Ireland. The school's students are mainly Protestant, although it is open to other denominations.
John Kearney, D.D. (1744–1813) was an Irish academic and churchman, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin from 1799. He was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory from 1806 to 1813.
Francis Andrews was an Irish politician.
John Lionel Darby was Dean of Chester in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th
Samuel Butcher PC was an Irish Anglican bishop in the Church of Ireland in the 19th century.
Events from the year 1637 in Ireland.
William Frederick Fownes Tighe, PC, JP was Lord Lieutenant of Kilkenny from 1847 to 1878.
Aquilla Smith was a highly regarded medical doctor, numismatist and archaeologist. He represented the Irish College of Physicians on the General Medical Council for almost forty years, and was an authority on Irish numismatics.
Joseph Thacker was an Anglican priest in the nineteenth century, and was the Archdeacon of Ossory from 1860 until his death in 1883.
George Dames Burtchaell, KC, MA, LLB, MRIA, JP was an Irish genealogist.
Nicholas Hewetson was an 18th-century Anglican priest in Ireland.
William Cockburn was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the eighteenth century.
Joseph Teate was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the seventeenth century.
William Galwey was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late decade of the 18th century and the first four of the 19th.
Robert Baillie was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the second half of the 18th century and the first decade of the 19th.
Benjamin Jacob was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the 19th century.
James Agar was an Irish politician. He was a litigious and hot-tempered man, whose bitter feud with a rival political faction led to his being killed in a duel. He was the father of the first and last Baron Callan.
Barnaby Bolger was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the seventeenth century.