Robert Humphreys (priest)

Robert Humphreys was a 19th-century Anglican priest in Ireland.[1]

Humphreys was born in County Cork, educated at Trinity College, Dublin[2] and ordained in 1854.[3] He served curacies at Drumcliff, Borrisokane, Broadford and Lisdoonvarna.[4] He was the incumbencies at Quin, County Clare from 1881 to 1884. He was Dean of Kilfenora from 1884 to 1886[5] when he became Dean of Killaloe.[6]

References

1. Clare Library
2. Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860), George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir (supp) p39: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p617: London, Horace Cox, 1885
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p690: London, Horace Cox, 1885
5. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X
6. "The journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland" p149. Volume IX Fourth series: Dublin, University Press, 1890