- George Thomas Stokes
George Thomas Stokes (1843–1898) was an Irish
ecclesiastical historian .Stokes was born on
December 28 1843 inAthlone , Ireland. He studied atGalway grammar school and atQueens College Galway . He graduated from Trinity College,Dublin with a B.A. in 1864, an M.A. in 1871, a B.D. in 1881, and a D.D. in 1886.Stokes was vicar of All Saints, in
Newtown Park , Dublin, from 1868–1898. In 1880 he became assistant to theRegius Professor of Divinity, and in 1883 became Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Trinity College, Dublin. He becamelibrarian ofSaint Patrick's Library in Dublin in 1887, and theprebend and canon of St Andrew's in 1893.He died in Dublin on
March 24 1898 .Publications
* "Ireland and the
Celtic Church . A History of Ireland from St Patrick to the English Conquest in 1172" (London, 1886)
* "A commentary on the Acts" 2 vols, in "The Expositor’s Bible" (1888)
* "Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church. A History of Ireland and Irish Christianity from the Anglo-Norman Conquest to the Dawn of theReformation " (1889)
* "Dudley Loftus: A Dublin Antiquary of the Seventeenth Century" (Dublin, 1890)
* "The Island Monasteries of Wales and Ireland" (1891)
* "St Fechin of Fone, and his Monastery" (1892)
* "Greek inGaul and Western Europe down to A.D. 700. The Knowledge of Greek in Ireland between A.D. 500 and 900" (1892)
* "Calendar of the Liber Niger Alani" (1893)
* "The Writings of St Patrick", a Translation with Notes (1887) (in collaboration withC. H. H. Wright ):historian-stub
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