Henry Benjamin Rooke was an Irish Anglican priest.National Library of Ireland
Rooke was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College there.Burtchaell, George Dames; Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (eds), Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860), p. 715: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935. He was ordained in 1854. His first post was as Chancellor's vicar at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was rector of Wicklow from 1873 to 1906;Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1908 p1234: London, Horace Cox, 1898 and Archdeacon of Glendalough from 1906Fryde, E. B., Greenway, D.E., Porter, S., Roy, I., Handbook of British Chronology, Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 9780521563505 until 1914.Moody,T.W., Martin, F.X., Byrne, F.J., Cosgrove, A., A New History of Ireland, Oxford, OUP, 1976
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