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Charles Thornton Primrose Grierson was an eminent Irish clergyman in the first third of the 20th century. Gaining an MA, then ordained in 1881, he began his career with a curacy at Kells, after which he was Rector of Stradbally and then Seapatrick, County Down. Promotion to be Dean of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast followed; after which he was elevated to the episcopate as the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore. Works. He contributed to the monumental "Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels" 1908 edited by Hastings.

References

1. The Times, Friday, Jul 12, 1935; pg. 16; Issue 47114; col E Obituary Rt Rev. Charles Thornton Primrose Grierson
2. “A New History of Ireland” Moody,T.M;Martin,F.X;Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,F:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
3. “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Kelly’s, 1913
5. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 428.
6. Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

External links

• "Down and Connor and Dromore, Bishop of" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 67  – via Wikisource.

• 1857 births
• Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
• Deans of Belfast
• 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland
• Bishops of Down, Connor and Dromore
• 1935 deaths