Richard MacDonnell (scholar)
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The Reverend Dr Richard MacDonnell |
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| 29th Provost of Trinity College, Dublin | |
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In office 1851–1867 |
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| Preceded by | Franc Sadleir |
| Succeeded by | Humphrey Lloyd |
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10 June 1787 High Park, County Cork |
| Died | 24 January 1867 (aged 79) Provost's House, Dublin |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Graves |
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Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell Major-General Arthur Robert MacDonnell |
Richard MacDonnell LL.D., D.D., S.F.T.C.D. (1787–1867) was the Reformist 29th Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and the projector of Sorrento Terrace, Dalkey, which is today famous for being the most expensive row of houses in Ireland.
MacDonnel, of the Tynekill MacDonnells of Leinster, was the son of Robert MacDonnell (1764–1821) of High Park, nr Douglas, Co. Cork, and Susanna Nugent (1766–1836) of Ardmore, Co. Waterford, of the Cloncoskraine Nugents in the same county. For the most part of his life, his father had been a prosperous man. He had been given a lucrative revenue appointment at Cork by a close friend of his own father's – George Lowther – and had contemplated an early retirement on his substantial properties. But following the overthrow of Napoleon, property prices fell dramatically and he, like many others, died an impoverished and disappointed man.
In 1810, Richard MacDonnell married Jane Graves, daughter of the Very Rev. Richard Graves, and sister of Robert James Graves. They were the parents of fourteen children, including Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell and Major-General Arthur Robert MacDonnell. He was the uncle of Francis Brinkley and Richard Charles Mayne, and the uncle and guardian of Edmund Allen Meredith, the principal of McGill University in Montreal.
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