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William Greene (Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin)

William Greene (Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin)

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This article is about the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. For the Dean of Lismore, see William Greene (Dean of Lismore).

William Conyngham Greene (19 October 1827 – 9 August 1910) was an Anglican priest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.[1] He was the son of Richard Wilson Greene, judge of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) and Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of Thomas Wilson of Fulford, North Yorkshire.[2] His nephew was the eminent diplomat Sir Conyngham Greene. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and ordained in 1850.[3] He was a curate at St Anne's, Dublin, and then held four successive Dublin incumbencies; St Peter's, St Michael's, St John's and St Werburgh's. In 1987 he became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, a post he held for 21 years. He died on 9 August 1910.[4]

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  1. [1]
    "Greene, Very Rev. William Conyngham", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 Accessed 18 July 2012
  2. [2]
    Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour p. 140
  3. [3]
    The Standard "Ireland" (London, England), Friday, 27 December 1850; Issue 8230
  4. [4]
    "The Very Rev. W. Conyngham Greene", The Times, (London, England), 12 August 1910, p. 9.
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