Hugh Ussher Tighe (b Castletowndevlin 27 February 1802 – d Newtownstewart 11 August 1874)Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries The Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, 15 August 1874; pg. 8; Issue 31864"RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE" The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, 22 May 1860; Issue 4065 was a Dean of the Church of Ireland."IRELAND" Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Saturday, 12 August 1854; pg. 6; Issue 7916
He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained deacon in 1826 and priest in 1827. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Longbridge Deverill. After this he was the Rector of ClonmoreGenealogical website then a Chaplain to Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland."LORD DE GREY'S CHAPLAINS" The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Friday, 29 October 1841; Issue 22448
Tighe became Dean of Leighlin, then Dean of Ardagh and Dean of the Chapel Royal, and finally Dean of Derry in 1860. He died in 1874 and was buried in Drumcar. A stained glass window by Charles Alexander Gibbs was donated by his wife in St Columb's Cathedral.
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