Henry Rooke (priest)

Henry Benjamin Rooke was an Irish Anglican priest:[1]

Rooke was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College there.[2] He was ordained in 1854. His first post was as Chancellor's Vicar at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was Rector of Wicklow from 1873 to 1906;[3] and Archdeacon of Glendalough from 1906[4] until 1914.[5]

References

  1. ↑ National Library of Ireland
  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), p. 715: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935.
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1234: London, Horace Cox, 1898
  4. ↑ “Handbook of British Chronology” By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505
  5. ↑ “A New History of Ireland” Moody,T.W; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5


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