Robert Grave
Robert Grave was an Anglican priest in the last years of the sixteenth century.[1]
Born in Kent, he was educated at Cambridge University.[2] He was appointed Dean of Cork in 1590;[3] Precentor of Limerick in 1591;[4] Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in 1595;[5] and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in July 1600.[6] He and his family were drowned in Dublin Bay in October that year.[7]
References
- ^ Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 0713642556
- ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. ii Dabbs – Juxton (1922) p248
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p239 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p398 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p51 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p335 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ Today in Irish History
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