George Tottenham

The Very Rev. George Tottenham, MA (20 October 1825 – 20 October 1911) was Dean of Clogher from 1900 to 1903.[1]

The 10th son of Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus, Bishop of Clogher from 1822 to 1850,[2] he was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3][4] Ordained in 1849, after curacies in Donaghmore and Tynan[5] he was Rector of Inishmacsaint.[6] He was also Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin and was made a Freeman of Dublin in 1861. Married to Emily Frances Maclean the eldest surviving daughter of Rev. William Maclean, Prebendary of Tynan, Co. Armagh, they had 7 children only one of whom went on to have children of his own.

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. "Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p38: Enniskille; R. H. Ritchie; 1929
  3. "The Sherborne Register 1550-1950" (PDF). Old Shirbirnian Society. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  4. 'The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald' (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Wednesday, July 05, 1854; Issue 3758
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 1437 London, Horace Cox, 1908
  6. ‘TOTTENHAM, Very Rev. George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 10 May 2014
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Thomas Le Ban Kennedy		 Dean of Clogher
1900–1903		 Succeeded by
Charles Thomas Ovenden


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