Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ross, Bishop of

ROSS, Bishop of, The Right Rev. Denis Kelly, D.D.; consecrated 9th May, 1897 Educ. at the Diocesan College, Ennis, and at the Irish College, Paris, where he had a most distinguished collegiate career; ordained Priest in Paris, 17th March, 1877, after which he returned to Ireland and was appointed Curate in the Parish of Roscrea; later he was transferred to the Diocesan College as Professor, subsequently he became Vice-President, and on the appointment of Dr. McRedmond as Bishop of Killaloe in 1890, he became President of the College; Member of the Council of Agriculture and of the Agricultural Board for Ireland, 1900-20; Chairman of the Governors of the Baltimore Fishery School; Member of Departmental Committee on Irish Forestry, 1907-08; Royal Commissioner on Poor Laws and the Relief of Distress for Great Britain and Ireland, 1905-09; Member of the Cabinet Committee on Irish Finance, 1911, of the Committee on Primary Education (Ireland), 1913, and of the Irish Convention, 1917; b. at Kilaneave, Nenagh, 29th Feb., 1852. Res.: Bishop's House, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.