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
  1. National Library of Ireland
  2. 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.
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1908 p1234: London, Horace Cox, 1898
  4. Fryde, E. B., Greenway, D.E., Porter, S., Roy, I., Handbook of British Chronology, Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505
  5. Moody,T.W., Martin, F.X., Byrne, F.J., Cosgrove, A., A New History of Ireland, Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5


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