John Gwynn DD DCL (1827 - 1917)

Born 28 Aug 1827 in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland

Ancestors

Died 2 Apr 1917 at age 89 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

John was born in 1827. He was the son of Stephen Gwynn and Mary Stevenson.

He was educated by Dr Graham at Enniskillen Royal School and entered Trinity College, Dublin on 6 November 1845, aged 18. Sch 1848, B.A. 1850, Fellow 1853, M.A. 1854, B.D. 1861, D.D. 1880, Archbishop King's Lecturer 1883. ^[1]

Regius Professor of Divinity at Dublin University from 1888 to 1907.

Biography from Dictionary of irish Biography ^[2]

He was warden of St Columba's College, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, from 1856 to 1864, when he resigned his fellowship on being granted the college living of Tullyaughnish, Co. Donegal. He was rector there till 1882, dean of Raphoe 1873–82, and rector of Templemore and dean of Derry 1882–3.

He became an expert on Syriac, which he had first studied to pass the time on long train journeys from Strabane to Dublin; in 1893 he published memoirs on Syriac versions of the New Testament, and in 1897 he edited a hitherto unknown Syriac text of St John's Apocalypse. Over the years he published numerous learned articles. His greatest work, which took him twenty years to complete, was a landmark annotated edition of a ninth century Irish manuscript written in Latin and known as the Book of Armagh.

in 1892 was awarded the honorary degree of DCL by Oxford University.

John married Lucy Josphine O'Brien, daughter of William Smith O'Brien, on 26 June 1862. They had eight sons and two daughters.

Children

1. Stephen Lucius married his first cousin, Mary Louise (May) Gwynn, eldest daughter of the Reverend James Gwynn, pastor of the Octagon Chapel in Bath
2. Lucius Henry married Katherine Rawlins in 1901.
3. Edward John
4. Charles William , Major General, K.C.B.
5. Robert Malcolm (robin) (1877–1962), professor of Hebrew at TCD,
6. John Tudor (1881–1956), Irish correspondent of the Manchester Guardian 1923–36
7. Brian James (1888–1972), civil servant in Ireland
8. Arthur Percival (1874–97), played rugby for Ireland and died in Burma.
9. Lucy Penelope (1866–1947) was the first lady registrar of T.C.D. (1905–15).
10. Mary Katharine (1879–1955), married widower Henry Cole Bowen of Bowen's Court, County Cork

He died in 1917. ^[3]

Probate ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
2. ↑ Dictionary of Irish Biography - John Gwynn
3. ↑ https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1917/05214/4442575.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014920/005014920_00163.pdf

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