David Frederick Ruddell Wilson (1871–1957) was an IrishJSTOR Anglican priest Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 9780521563505 and hymnist. He was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in the Church of Ireland in the second quarter of the 20th century.
Born into an ecclesiastical family,He was the son of the Rev. James Wilson, Rector of Tyholland, Monaghan > "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Ordained in 1895, his first position was as a curate at St. Ann's Belfast."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 He was Succentor and then Precentor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin until 1914 when he became Rector of Drumcondra. On Christmas Eve 1914, he organised the first service of Nine Lessons and Carols in Ireland in North Strand Church. He then held a similar post at Donnybrook until his elevation to the Deanery.A New History of Ireland by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976
He died on 24 November 1957.Who was Who (ibid)
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