Usher Tighe

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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]

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  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
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Richard Boyle Bernard
Dean of Leighlin
1850–1854
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Charles Augustus Vignoles
Deans of the Chapel Royal, Dublin
1843–1860
Succeeded by
Preceded by Dean of Ardagh
1854–1858
Succeeded by
Preceded by Dean of Derry
1860–1874
Succeeded by


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