Charles Vignoles (priest)

Charles Augustus Vignoles (b Portarlington, County Laois 25 July 1789 – d Kilkenny 18 October 1877[1]) was a Nineteenth century Church of Ireland dean, specifically the dean of Ossory and the dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin.[2]

Vignoles was in the fourth generation of the Huguenot family of the name from Portarlington.[3] In the 1830s he was resident at Cornaher House near Tyrrellspass, County Westmeath, built by his father the Rev. John Vignoles (died 1819), a former army officer, and was rector of Newtown Church.[4] He contributed to the building of the local Christ Church (1834).[5] His sister Elizabeth Anne Vignoles married George Grey and was mother of Sir George Grey, 11th Premier of New Zealand.[6][7]

References
  1. "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Monday, 22 October 1877; Issue 19419
  2. "Very Rev. Charles Augustus Vignoles". The Peerage. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  3. John Stocks Powell, The Huguenots of Portarlington, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Vol. 61, No. 244 (Winter, 1972), pp. 343–353, at p. 348. Published by: Irish Province of the Society of Jesus JSTOR 30087999
  4. "County Meath Search Results: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage". www.buildingsofireland.ie.
  5. "Additional Images: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage". www.buildingsofireland.ie.
  6. Belich, James. "Grey, Sir George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11534. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. Cadogan, Bernard. "'A Terrible and Fatal Man': Sir George Grey and the British Southern Hemisphere" (PDF). p. 29. Retrieved 10 November 2018.


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