Henry Rooke (priest)
Henry Benjamin Rooke was an Irish Anglican priest .[ 1]
Rooke was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College there.[ 2] He was ordained in 1854. His first post was as Chancellor 's vicar at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin . He was rector of Wicklow from 1873 to 1906;[ 3] and Archdeacon of Glendalough from 1906[ 4] until 1914.[ 5]
References
^ National Library of Ireland
^ Burtchaell, George Dames; Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (eds), Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860) , p. 715: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935.
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory , 1908 p1234: London, Horace Cox , 1898
^ Fryde, E. B., Greenway, D.E., Porter, S., Roy, I., Handbook of British Chronology , Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X , 9780521563505
^ Moody,T.W., Martin, F.X., Byrne, F.J., Cosgrove, A., A New History of Ireland , Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5