Thom's Irish Who's Who/Bernard, The Most Rev. and Right Hon. John Henry

2907336Thom's Irish Who's Who — Bernard, The Most Rev. and Right Hon. John Henry


BERNARD, The Most Rev. and Right Hon. John Henry, P.C. (1919), D.D., D.C.L., Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1919; Hon. Fellow, Queen's College, Oxford; ex-Sch. and University Student (Trinity College, Dublin); Fellow and Tutor, 1884; ordained, 1886; Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity, 1888-1911; Hon. Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, 1887-1902; Chaplain to the Bishop of Down, 1889-1901; Donnellan Lecturer, 1895; Commissioner of National Education, 1897-1903; Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests, 1904-11; Commissioner of Intermediate Education, 1917; Treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1897-1902, and Dean, 1902-11; President of the Royal Irish Academy, 1916; Warden of Alexandra Coll., Dublin, 1903-11; Bishop of Ossory, 1911-15; Archbishop of Dublin, Nov., 1915 to July, 1919: Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), 1905: Hon. D.D. (Aberdeen), 1906; Hon. D.C.L. (Oxford), 1920; Select Preacher, Oxford. 1893-95, 1912, and 1919; Cambridge, 1898, 1901, 1904. 1917; Author and Editor, Kant's Critical Philosophy (with Prof. Mahaffy), 2 vols. & Kant's Critique of Judgment; The Pastoral Epistles (Camb. Greek Test.); The 2nd Ep. to the Corinthians (Expositors' Greek Test.); The Irish Liber Hymnorum (with Prof. Atkinson), 2 vols.; St. Patrick's Cathedral, a Handbook; The Works of Bishop Butler, 2 vols.; The Odes of Solomon; The Pilgrimage of St. Silvia; Studia Sacra; six volumes of sermons and various articles in Hastings' Dictionaries, and Memoirs in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Eldest son of late W. F. Bernard, C.E.; b. 1860; m. 1885, Maud. 2nd dau. of late Robert Bernard, M.D., R.N., D.I.G. of Hospitals and Fleets. Res: Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin.