Usher Tighe Explained

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. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Longbridge Deverill. After this he was the Rector of Clonmore[5] then a Chaplain to Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.[6]

Notes and 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. Web site: Hugh Usher Tighe . National Portrait Gallery . 10 February 2020.
  4. "IRELAND" Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Saturday, 12 August 1854; pg. 6; Issue 7916
  5. http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I78102&tree=Welsh Genealogical website
  6. "LORD DE GREY'S CHAPLAINS" The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Friday, 29 October 1841; Issue 22448

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