Deans and Priors of Christ Church (Holy Trinity) cathedral, Dublin


Dates	Deans
2008	Dermot Patrick Martin Dunne
2004	Robert Desmond Harman
1989	John Thomas Farquhar Paterson
1967	Thomas Noel Desmond Cornwall Salmon
1962	Norman David Emerson
1938	Ernest Henry Cornwall Lewis-Crosby
1921	Herbert Brownlow Kennedy
1918	Harry Vere White
1908	James Hornidge Walsh
1887	(Abp Plunket resigned as dean, appointing a canon of his cathedral)
1887	William Conyngham Greene
1884	William Conyngham, Lord Plunket	(abp of Dublin, 1884-87)
1872	Richard Chenevix Trench	(abp of Dublin, 1863-84)
1864	John West	(dean of St Patrick’s, 1864-89)
1846	(Kildare united to Dublin & Christ Church deanery united to St Patrick’s)
1846	Hon. Henry Pakenham	(dean of St Patrick’s, 1843-63)
1804	Hon. Charles Dalrymple Lindsay	(bp of Kildare)
1790	George Lewis Jones	(bp of Kildare)
1765	Charles Jackson	(bp of Kildare)
1761	Richard Robinson	(bp of Kildare)
1745	Thomas Fletcher	(bp of Kildare)
1743	George Stone	(bp of Kildare)
1731	Charles Cobbe	(bp of Kildare)
1705	Welbore Ellis	(bp of Kildare)
1688	Alexius Stafford	(appointed by James II, d. 1691)
1677	William Moreton	(bp of Kildare, 1681-1705)
1666	John Parry	(bp of Ossory, 1672-7)
1661	Robert Mossom
[1644	William Berrey	(papal provision)]
[1644	Patrick Cahill	(papal provision)]
1639	James Margetson
1634	Henry Tilson
1618	Randolph (Ralph) Barlow	(abp of Tuam, 1629-34)
1595	Jonas Wheeler	(bp of Ossory, 1613-40)
1565	John Garvey	(bp of Kilmore, 1585-9, abp of Armagh, 1589-95)
1543	Thomas Lockwood
1539	Robert Paynswick
	Priors
1537	Robert Castle alias Paynswick
1519	William Hassard
1499	Richard Skyrrett
1489	David Wynchester
1474	Thomas Harrold
1459	William Lynton
1438	William Denys
1409	Nicholas Staunton
1397	James de Redenesse
1382	Robert Lokynton
1349	Stephen de Derby	'1357. John Bebe was prior. n [n War. Mss. vol. 33]' '1365. Stephen was prior. See the abbey of Abbingdon, in the county of Limerick [in Archdall]', Mervyn Archdall, Monasticon Hibernicum, ed. Patrick F. Moran (2 vols, Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1873), ii, 8.
1346	Robert de Hereforde
1343	Simon de Ludegate
1337	Gilbert de Bolyniop
1331	Roger Goioun
1326	Robert de Gloucester
1320	Hugh de Sutton alias le Jeune
1313	John Pocock (Pocot)
1301	Henry de la Warre de Bristol
c.1296	Adam de Balsham
c.1292	John de Exeter
c.1279	Adam de la More
(?) c.1265	William de Gran
1252	[John]	(Johannes Toppe, 6 Jan in Obits?). See also Mervyn Archdall, Monasticon Hibernicum, ed. Patrick F. Moran (2 vols, Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1873), ii, 4.
c.1244	Robert de Stanford	A prior Fulk is listed in the book of Obits on ?21 June ('Ob. Fulco prior noster')
(?) c.1235	Philip
c.1225	Roger
c.1220	Bernard
(?) c.1208	W	William de Grace (1209) [Archdall (1873), i, 333]
c.1205	Robert
(?) c.1201	H
(?) c.1196	Thomas
(?) c.1190	Columbanus
(?) c.1171	Gervase

LIST OF DEANS & PRIORS OF
CHRIST CHURCH (HOLY TRINIT) CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN

This list is published in Kenneth Milne (ed.), Christ Church cathedral Dublin: a history (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), pp. 391-2, and is based on the following sources:

Anon. ‘Cathedral of Dublin: the ancient priory church of the holy Trinity commonly called Christ Church’, poster [c.1908, updated to 1921]

William Butler, The cathedral church of the Holy Trinity Dublin (Christ Church): a description of its fabric, and a brief history of the foundation, and subsequent changes (London, 1901), ‘Appendix: list of priors and deans 1170-1901’.

J.B. Leslie, ‘Fasti of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin’, unpublished typescript, R.C.B. Library, Dublin.

G.J Hand, ‘Appendix i: list of the priors of Holy Trinity, 1163-1382’ in ‘The two cathedrals of Dublin: internal organisation and mutual relations, to the middle of the fourteenth century’ (M.A. and Travelling Studentship in History thesis, National University of Ireland, 1954), pp 147-149.

Church of Ireland directory 2000 including diary and lectionary (Dublin, 1999).

See also Mervyn Archdall, Monasticon Hibernicum, ed. Patrick F. Moran (2 vols, Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1873), ii, 15-16, 'A List of Deans of Christ Church'.