Thom's Irish Who's Who/Meath, Bishop of, The Most Rev. the Hon. Benjamin John Plunket

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Thom's Irish Who's Who
Meath, Bishop of, The Most Rev. the Hon. Benjamin John Plunket
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MEATH, Bishop of, The Most Rev. the Hon. Benjamin John Plunket, M.A. (Cantab.); 95th Bishop; elected Oct., 1919; formerly Rector of Aghade, Co. Carlow; Vicar of St. Ann's, Dublin; 1909-13; Treasurer and Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1910-13; Domestic Chaplain to His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin to 1913, Chaplain to H.E. the Lord Lieutenant, 1906-13; Bishop of Tuam, 1913-19; second son of 4th Baron Plunket; b. 1870; m. 1904, Dorothea Hester, third dau. of Sir Thomas Butler, Bart. Res.: Bishopscourt, Ardbraecan, Navan.