Robert Miller (Irish bishop)

Robert Miller (1866–1931) was a Church of Ireland bishop^[1] in the first half of the 20th century.^[2]

Miller on 22 June 1925

Miller was educated at Trinity College, Dublin^[3] and ordained for Christ Church Derry in 1892.^[4] He was Rector of Donegal from 1894 to 1900.^[5] After a further incumbency at Raphoe he was Secretary of the Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in Ireland until 1916.

The Bishop's funeral in 1931.

He was Dean of Waterford from then until 1919, when he became Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore- ^[6] a post he held until his death on 13 March 1931.^[7]

He accompanied the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin John Gregg and Protestant businessman Sir William Goulding "to see Michael Collins in May 1922, following the murders of thirteen Protestants in the Bandon valley, to ask whether the Protestant minority should stay on. Collins 'assured them that the government would maintain civil and religious liberty'."^[8][9]

Coat of arms of Robert Miller

Notes Granted 24 September 1919 by George James Burtchaell, Deputy Ulster King of Arms.[10] Crest Out of waves of the sea a sextet erect with the first and second fingers pointing upwards all Proper. Torse Of the colours. Escutcheon Argent on a cross moline Azure between two annulets in chief Gules a cross pattee Or. Motto Manent Optima Coelo

References

1. "Irish Bishop On Partition". The Times. No. 42448. 28 June 1920. p. 13; col C.
2. Handbook of British Chronology by Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E; Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996, ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505
3. "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
4. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 248.
5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
6. "A New History of Ireland" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
7. "Death Of The Bishop Of Cashel". The Times. No. 45771. 14 March 1931. p. 14; col C.
8. Bury, Robin (2017). Buried Lives - The Protestants of Southern Ireland. Dublin: The History Press Ireland. pp. 25, 120. ISBN 978 184588 880 0.
9. citing McDowell, R.B. (1997). Crisis and Decline - The Fate of the Southern Unionists. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. p. 135. ISBN 1 874675929.
10. "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. L,". National Library of Ireland. p. 261. Retrieved 27 June 2022.

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Preceded by Henry Stewart O'Hara	Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore 1919–1931	Succeeded by John Frederick McNeice