Robert Jones Sylvester Devenish (6 December 1850 – 16 September 1916) was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.A New History of Ireland. Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, A.: Oxford, OUP, 1976
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1874."The Irish Church." The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, 22 December 1874; Issue 56138 After a curacy at St Patrick, Waterford he was Vicar of Cahir from 1874 to 1881.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 395: London, Horace Cox, 1908 He married Rosamond Price on 5 February 1877: they had a daughter and three sons, one of whom was Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish, Archdeacon of Lahore. He was Prebendary of Rossduff in Waterford Cathedral from 1883 to 1886; Archdeacon of Waterford from 1886 to 1913; and Dean of Cashel from 1913 until his death."Devenish, Very Rev. Robert Jones Sylvester," Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 April 2014
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