Maurice Day (Dean of Waterford)

Maurice William Day (23 April 1858 – 29 August 1916) was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1]

He was the son of a clergyman (His father was Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore from 1872[2] until 1899); and was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, Dublin. Ordained in 1882,[3] after curacies at Queenstown and Waterford he held incumbencies at Newport, County Tipperary and then Kilbrogan, County Cork.[4] In 1887 he married Katherine Louisa Frances Garfitt: they had one daughter and four sons, two of which were killed in the First World War,[5] Lieut Maurice Charles Day(1891-1914) in East Africa and Capt. John Edward Day (1894 - 1917) in Flanders. 1900 he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Cashel and Waterford. From 1908[6] to 1913 he was Dean of Cashel;[7] and, from 1913 to 1916, Dean of Waterford. On August 29, 1916, he died aged 58,in Courtmacsherry, County Cork.

References
  1. "A New History of Ireland" Moody,T.W; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  2. The Times, Friday, 22 March 1872; pg. 11; Issue 27331; col D News in Brief
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p593: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. ‘DAY, Very Rev. Maurice William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 April 2014
  5. "Surname D". Waterford's Roll of Honour. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  6. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Friday, 21 February 1908; pg. 8; Issue 38575
  7. thePeerage.com
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