Richard Graves DD (1763 - 1829)

Born 1 Oct 1763 in Kilmallock, Co Limerick, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza (Drought) Graves — married 1 Aug 1787 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 29 Mar 1829 at age 65 in Rahenny, Ireland

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Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

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He was the son of Reverend James Graves and Jane Ryder.

He was a cleric in the Church of Ireland, rising to the rank of Dean of Ardagh. His father was a clergyman.

As a theology academic, he became a senior fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. He entered Trinity College Dublin on 5 June 1780, aged 16. Sch 1782, B.A. 1784, Fellow 1786, M.A. 1787, B.D. 1794, D.D. 1799, Donellan Lecturer 1797 and 1801, Archbishop King's Lecturer 1799 and 1805, Professor of Laws 1809, Regius Professor of Greek 1810, Regius Professor of Divinity 1819. ^[1]

There is a stained-glass window in Trinity College, Dublin in his memory.

He married Eliza May Drought, the daughter of Rev. Dr. James Drought, his colleague. He died on 31 March 1829 at age 65.

Children of Very Rev. Richard Graves and Eliza May Drought

Ann Graves

John Graves b. 1788, d. 1788

Reverend Richard Hastings Graves b. 1791, d. 1877

James Drought Graves b. 1792, d. 1794

Elizabeth Graves b. 1792, d. 1855

Jane Graves b. 2 Mar 1793, d. 8 Jan 1882

Hercules Henry Graves b. 1794, d. 1817

Dr. Robert James Graves b. 1796, d. 1853

Harriet Graves b. 1800, d. 1855

Arabella Graves b. 1801, d. 1879

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.

• Wikipedia Richard Grave

The Graves were the parents of nine children. Some of their descendants include:- Robert James Graves (1796–1853); Sir William Collis Meredith (1812–1894); Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell (1814–1881); Edmund Allen Meredith (1817–1899); Anna Brinkley, Dowager Countess of Kingston (died 1909); John Dawson Mayne (1828–1917); https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mayne-1112 Major-General Arthur Robert MacDonnell (1835–1900); Francis Brinkley (1841–1912); Frederick Edmund Meredith (1862–1941); William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne (1868–1942); Judge James Creed Meredith (1875–1942); unfortunate Violet Gibson (1876–1956); Dean Ralph Creed Meredith (1887–1970); Cyril Connolly (1903–1974); Escott Reid (1905–1999); Hilda van Stockum (1908–2006); Willem Jacob van Stockum (1910–1944); Olivia Durdin-Robertson (b. 1917); Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953); and Anna Meredith (b. 1978).

• Family Correspondence.
• The Peerage.com Very Rev. Richard Graves

• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 2 - The Province of Leinster, Pg 70
• Vol 3. - The Province of Ulster, Pg 189