Parochial Clergy

The Representative Body of the Church of Ireland, in whom copyright is vested, has been kind enough to supply the writer with the Clerical Succession List for our Parish of Booterstown and, with their permission it is herewith reproduced.

[The Representative Church Body has kindly agreed to extend the permission for use on this web site – Webmaster]

PERPETUAL CURATES

1824	James BULWER	1832	Robert Herbert NIXON
1825	Anthony SILLERY	1857	Beaver Henry BLACKER

INCUMBENTS

1874	John LOMBARD	1916	Thomas Arnold HARVEY
1892	Thomas Sterling BERRY	1933	Ernest Maunsell BATEMAN
1913	Gilbert MAHAFFEY	1965	David James Osborne BARR

With the help of the diocesan office, Robert Knaggs has updated the list:

1992	Paul Moore WILLOUGHBY	2000	Kenneth Arthur Lambert BARRETT
1995	Stephen Bernard FORDE	2004	Gillian Vera WHARTON

CURATES

1867	Alured Henry ALCOCK	1916	George TOWNSEND
1872	John CARTER	1919	William Cecil DE PAULEY
1875	Thomas Edmund HACKETT	1920	Herbert Lombard EVES
1881	Samuel SANDYS	1925	William Walter JOHNSTON
1882	Robert Irvine FORD	1927	Richard Randall HARTFORD
1882	James Francis CAITHNESS		Gap in Curacy until
1885	Francis Hoffman BATTERSBY	1943	Thomas Francis BLENNERHASSET
1892	William Frederick FITZGERALD	1947	William Joseph SMALLHORNE
1893	William ANDERSON	1949	Ernest Arthur BRANDON
1894	James SMITH	1952	William Gerald DAVIS
1897	Walsingham Collins GOOD	1956	Richard Henry BERTRAM
1905	Samuel HUTCHINSON	1957	Ernest Cope Todd PERDUE
1913	William Frederick CROSTWAITH	*1961	Samuel Derek HAMILTON

*(Since the latter’s appointment as Rector in Kilmore Diocese, no further curates have been working in Booterstown.)

This is the point at which the dedicated service of two lay readers must be noted.

CAPTAIN F. BARTON

MRS. PHYLLIS HODGINS

and the Church of Ireland, in future years will rely heavily on men and women of their calibre and ability.

There is one clergyman in this Succession List who remains somewhat of a “mystery man”. Rev. George Williams who assisted Rev. Robert Nixon in the years 1850-1855, yet does not appear in the “official list”.

The beautiful winged eagle lectern in St. Philip’s and St. James’s records his memory thus: