William Gorman (priest)

William Charles Gorman (b Lurgan 25 September 1826 - d Thomastown 20 May 1916) was an Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who served most notably as Archdeacon of Ossory from 1883 until 1911.[1]

He was the son of the Reverend William Fortescue Gorman of Tannaghmore, Lurgan, County Antrim and his wife Harriet Greene (died 1839), daughter of Sir Jonas Greene, Recorder of Dublin and his wife, the leading actress Marianne Hitchcock. He married Harriet Pitcairn West of Cork, daughter of Henry Augustus West and Elizabeth Denne Pitcairn, in 1856. They had at least two children, William and Amy. Harriet died in 1926.

A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin[2] he was ordained in 1852.[3] After curacies at Kiltegan and Kilkenny he was the Incumbent at Kilmocar, 1859–63; Kilsheelan, 1863–69; and Thomastown, 1869–1908.

References
  1. ‘GORMAN, Ven. William Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 Sept 2017
  2. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell,G.D/Sadlier,T.U p788: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p569: London, Horace Cox, 1908


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