Robert Burrowes (priest)

Robert Burrowes, D.D., was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries.[1]

Burrowes was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was Rector of Cappagh and later Archdeacon of Ferns from 1796 to 1798,[3] At the height of the 1798 rising, he resigned as Archdeacon of Ferns and Rector of Adamstown, County Wexford, and became Master of the Royal School at Enniskillen;[4] in 1819 he was appointed as Dean of Cork[5] and remained in post until his death in 1841.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds), Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935, p. 118
  3. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H., p. 362, Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  4. ↑ Patrick Comerford, "AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY: TAGHMON in south Co. Wexford is celebrating a handful of anniversaries", The Irish Times, 13 May 1997
  5. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates" Vol. I Cotton, Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878, pp. 243, 244
  6. ↑ National Archives
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