Henry O'Hara
Henry Stewart O’Hara (6 September 1843 – 11 December 1923) was an eminent Church of Ireland Bishop[1] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2]
Church Appointments
O’Hara was born on 6 September 1843 into an ecclesiastical family. His father was Rector of Coleraine,[3] a post he, Henry, was to hold from 1869 to 1894. Educated at Leicester Collegiate School and Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1867. While based in Coleraine, he was Chancellor of Connor Cathedral from 1884 to 1898. In 1894 he was appointed Vicar of Belfast.[4] In 1897 he became a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and in 1899 he became the first dean of Belfast.[5] In a meeting of the Bench of Bishops of the Church of Ireland on 6 February 1900, he was elected Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore,[6][7] and he was consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Dublin at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 24 February 1900.[8] He served as such until his retirement in 1919.[9]
Following his consecration as bishop, he received the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Sacra Theologia from Trinity College, Dublin in February 1900.[10]
Biography
He married Hatton Thomasina, the daughter of Thomas Scott of Willsboro.[11] He died on 11 December 1923.[12]
References
- ^ National Library of Ireland
- ^ Handbook of British Chronology by Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E; Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996, ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505
- ^ "Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ "ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS . The Standard (London, England), Thursday, July 12, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 21848. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
- ^ "Belfast Cathedral". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ^ "Ireland". The Times. No. 36059. London. 7 February 1900. p. 7. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ "A New History of Ireland" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ^ "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times. No. 36075. London. 26 February 1900. p. 8. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Kellys, 1913
- ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36077. London. 28 February 1900. p. 7. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke
- ^ The Times, Thursday, December 27, 1923; pg. 5; Issue 43533; col G Deaths
