Charles Vignoles (priest)

Charles Augustus Vignoles (b Portarlington, County Laois 25 July 1789 – 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]

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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]

References

1. "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Monday, 22 October 1877; Issue 19419
2. "Very Rev. Charles Augustus Vignoles". The Peerage. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
3. John Stocks Powell, The Huguenots of Portarlington, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Vol. 61, No. 244 (Winter, 1972), pp. 343–353, at p. 348. Published by: Irish Province of the Society of Jesus JSTOR 30087999
4. "County Meath Search Results: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage". www.buildingsofireland.ie.
5. "Additional Images: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage". www.buildingsofireland.ie.
6. Belich, James. "Grey, Sir George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11534. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. Cadogan, Bernard. "'A Terrible and Fatal Man': Sir George Grey and the British Southern Hemisphere" (PDF). p. 29. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Office created	Deans of the Chapel Royal, Dublin 1831–1843	Succeeded by Hugh Usher Tighe
Preceded by Joseph Bourke	Dean of Ossory 1843–1877	Succeeded by Thomas Hare