Charles Vignoles (priest)
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Charles Augustus Vignoles (b Portarlington, County Laois 25 July 1789 ā d Kilkenny 18 October 1877[1]) was a Nineteenth century Church of Ireland dean, specifically the dean of Ossory and the dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin.[2]
Vignoles was in the fourth generation of the Huguenot family of the name from Portarlington.[3] In the 1830s he was resident at Cornaher House near Tyrrellspass, County Westmeath, built by his father the Rev. John Vignoles (died 1819), a former army officer, and was rector of Newtown Church.[4] He contributed to the building of the local Christ Church (1834).[5] His sister Elizabeth Anne Vignoles married George Grey and was mother of Sir George Grey, 11th Premier of New Zealand.[6][7]