Charles Augustus Vignoles (b Portarlington, County Laois 25 July 1789 – d Kilkenny 18 October 1877"Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Monday, 22 October 1877; Issue 19419) was a Nineteenth century Church of Ireland dean, specifically the dean of Ossory and the dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin.
Vignoles was in the fourth generation of the Huguenot family of the name from Portarlington.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 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. He contributed to the building of the local Christ Church (1834). His sister Elizabeth Anne Vignoles married George Grey and was mother of Sir George Grey, 11th Premier of New Zealand.
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