Usher Tighe

Hugh Usher Tighe (b Castletowndevlin 27 February 1802 – d Newtownstewart 11 August 1874)[1][2] was a Dean of the Church of England.[3][4]

He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained deacon in 1826 and priest in 1827.[5] He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Longbridge Deverill. After this he was the Rector of Clonmore[6] then a Chaplain to Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.[7]

References
  1. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries The Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, 15 August 1874; pg. 8; Issue 31864
  2. "RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE" The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, 22 May 1860; Issue 4065
  3. "Hugh Usher Tighe". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  4. "IRELAND" Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Saturday, 12 August 1854; pg. 6; Issue 7916
  5. "Tighe, Hugh Usher (1826–1827) (CCEd Person ID 40731)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  6. Genealogical website
  7. "LORD DE GREY'S CHAPLAINS" The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Friday, 29 October 1841; Issue 22448


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.