Robert Devenish (Dean of Cashel)

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Robert Jones Sylvester Devenish (6 December 1850[1] – 16 September 1916) was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2]

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1874.[3] After a curacy at St Patrick, Waterford he was Vicar of Cahir from 1874 to 1881.[4] He married Rosamond Price on 5 February 1877:[5] they had a daughter and three sons, one of whom was Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish, Archdeacon of Lahore.[6] He was Prebendary of Rossduff in Waterford Cathedral from 1883 to 1886; Archdeacon of Waterford from 1886 to 1913; and Dean of Cashel from 1913 until his death.[7]

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