Irish priest
John Robert Dowse (c. 1815 – 20 October 1892)[ 1] was Dean of Ferns [ 2] from 1879[ 3] until his death.[ 4]
He was born in Wexford , the son of Richard Dowse. He attended Trinity College Dublin , earning his BA in 1838 and MA in 1879.[ 5]
His youngest son Charles Dowse was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.[ 6]
Notes
^ "Dowse, Very Rev. William" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 67 – via Wikisource .
^ BELFAST: THURSDAY, 27 October 1892 Belfast Newsletter (Belfast, Ireland), Thursday, 27 October 1892; Issue 24124
^ Ecclesiastical Appointments The Times (London, England), Thursday, 10 April 1879; p. 11; Issue 29538
^ IGP
^ Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860) . Trinity College Dublin. p. 242. Retrieved 27 June 2018 .
^ "DOWSE, Rt Rev. Charles Benjamin", Who Was Who , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 September 2014