John Bernard

John Henry Bernard, PC (27 July 1860 – 29 August 1927) was an Irish Church of Ireland clergyman who was Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin from 1911 to 1915, Archbishop of Dublin from 1915 to 1919, and 35th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1919 to 1927.

Biography Bernard was born in Raniganj, British India. He was elected a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin in 1879, graduated with a B.A. degree in mathematics in 1880. He was elected a Fellow there in 1884, and was later a member of the council of the university, where he held the office of Archbishop King's Lecturer of Divinity from 1888 to 1902.

He was appointed treasurer of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, by the Dean Henry Jellett in 1897. On Jellett's death, in December 1901, Bernard became a favourite to succeed him as Dean, a position to which he was elected by the chapter of the cathedral 6 February 1902. He was regarded as a Unionist, representing the interests of unionism as a delegate to the 1917–18 Irish Convention.

Bernard married his cousin Maude Nannie Bernard in 1885; they had two sons and two daughters (Parker (2005): 73). In April 1915 his son, Lieutenant Robert Bernard of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers was killed in action during the Gallipoli Campaign. He is commemorated at V Beach Cemetery by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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