List of Provosts of Trinity College, Dublin
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|List of Provosts of Trinity College, Dublin |
|1||Adam Loftus||1592–1594||(c.1533–1605). Also was Archbishop of Armagh, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.|
|4||Sir William Temple||1609–1627||(c.1555–1627)|
|5||William Bedell||1627–1629||(c.1571–1642). Later became Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in 1629.|
|6||Robert Ussher||1629–1634||Later became Bishop of Kildare 1636–1642.|
|7||William Chappell||1634–1640||(c.1582–1649). Also was Bishop of Cork and Ross 1638–1649.|
|9||Anthony Martin||1645–1650||(died 1650). Also was Bishop of Meath 1625–1650|
|11||Thomas Steele||1661–1675||(c.1611–1675). Also was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1666–1675|
|12||Michael Ward||1674–1678||(c.1643–1681). Later became Bishop of Ossory in 1678, transferred to Derry in 1680.|
|13||Narcissus Marsh||1679–1683||(c.1638–1713). Later became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 1683, then Archbishop of Cashel in 1690, Archbishop of Dublin in 1694, and Archbishop of Armagh in 1703.|
|14||Robert Huntington||1683–1692||(c.1636–1701). Later became Bishop of Raphoe from July to September 1701. In Huntington's absence from 1688, James II appointed Michael Moore, Catholic vicar-general of Dublin, for a short period from 1689; he was later Rector of the University of Paris.|
|15||St George Ashe||1692–1695||(c.1658–1718). Later became bishop of Cloyne in 1695, translated to Clogher in 1697, and finally to Derry in 1717.|
|17||Peter Browne||1699–1710||(c.1665–1735). Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1710–1735.|
|18||Benjamin Pratt||1710–1717||(c.1669–1721). Later became Dean of Down 1717–1721.|
|20||Francis Andrews||1758–1774||(c.1718–1774). He left £3,000 to found the Dunsink Observatory and the Andrews chair of astronomy.|
|23||John Kearney||1799–1806||(c.1742–1813). Later became Bishop of Ossory 1806–1813.|
|24||George Hall||1806–1811||(c.1753–1811). Later became Bishop of Dromore 17–23 November 1811.|
|25||Thomas Elrington||1811–1820||(c.1760–1835). Later became Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1820, then translated to Ferns and Leighlin in 1822.|
|26||Samuel Kyle||1820–1831||(c.1771–1848). Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1831–1835, and Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 1835–1848|
|29||Richard MacDonnell||1851–1867||(c. 1787–1867)|
|31||John Hewitt Jellett||1881–1888||(c.1817–1888)|
|32||George Salmon||1888–1904||(c.1819–1904). Also was Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1871–1904.|
|34||Sir John Pentland Mahaffy||1914–1919||(c.1839–1919)|
|35||John Henry Bernard||1919–1927||(c.1860–1927). Formerly Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1902–1911, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1911–1915, and Archbishop of Dublin 1915–1919.|
|36||Edward John Gwynn||1927–1937||(c.1868–1941)|
|39||Albert Joseph McConnell||1952–1974||(b. 1903)|
|40||F. S. L. Lyons||1974–1981||(c.1923–1983)|
|41||William Arthur Watts||1981–1991||(1930–2010)|
- Former Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Retrieved on 18 September 2009.
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- Current Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Retrieved on 18 September 2009.
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