Charles Vignoles (priest) explained

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]}

Notes and References

1. "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Monday, 22 October 1877; Issue 19419
2. Web site: Very Rev. Charles Augustus Vignoles . The Peerage . 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
4. Web site: County Meath Search Results: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . www.buildingsofireland.ie . En.
5. Web site: Additional Images: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . www.buildingsofireland.ie . En.
6. 11534. James. Belich. Grey, Sir George.
7. Web site: Cadogan . Bernard . 'A Terrible and Fatal Man': Sir George Grey and the British Southern Hemisphere . 29. 10 November 2018.