| 词条 | Robert Plunkett |
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| type = priest | honorific_prefix = The Reverend | name = Robert Plunkett | image = Robert Plunkett portrait.png | birth_date = {{birth year|1752}} | death_date = {{death year and age|1815|1752}} | religion = Catholic Church }} Robert Plunkett (1752–1815) was the first President of Georgetown University.{{sfnm |1a1=Curran |1y=1993 |1p=32 |2a1=Currier |2y=1890 |2p=60}} An alumnus of English College, Douai, Plunkett became a Jesuit four years before the congregation's suppression.{{sfn|Curran|1993|p=32}} He was later ordained to the priesthood and sailed to the United States in 1790 as a missionary, alongside the priest Charles Neale{{sfn|Curran|1993|p=32}} (whose two brothers, Francis Neale and the Leonard Neale, would eventually become Presidents of Georgetown).{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} He was posted at a plantation in White Marsh, Maryland, before being named to the presidency of Georgetown University by John Carroll, the university's founder.{{sfn|Curran|1993|pp=32, 204–205}} In 1791, Carroll persuaded the reluctant Plunkett to accept the position.{{sfn|Curran|1993}} Plunkett oversaw the division of the university into three parts: "college", "preparatory", and "elementary".{{sfn|O'Neill|Williams|2003|p=13}} After eighteen months in office, Plunkett stepped down as the President of Georgetown University {{citation needed span |date=January 2018 |text=and was succeeded by Robert Molyneux}} in 1793.{{sfn|O'Neill|Williams|2003|p=13}} ReferencesCitationsWorks cited{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}{{cite book |last=Curran |first=Robert Emmett |year=1993 |title=The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University. Volume I: From Academy to University, 1789–1889 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Georgetown University Press |isbn=978-0-87840-485-8 |ref=harv }} {{cite book |last=Currier |first=Charles Warren |author-link=Charles Warren Currier |year=1890 |title=Carmel in America: A Centennial History of the Discalced Carmelites in the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JO3PAAAAMAAJ |location=Baltimore, Maryland |publisher=John Murphy & Co. |access-date=25 January 2018 |ref=harv }} {{cite book |last1=O'Neill |first1=Paul R. |last2=Williams |first2=Paul K. |year=2003 |title=Georgetown University |location=Charleston, South Carolina |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-1509-0 |ref=harv }}{{refend}}{{S-start}}{{S-aca}}{{s-new|office}}{{s-ttl|title=President of Georgetown University|years=1791–1793|order=1st}}{{s-aft|after=Robert Molyneux}}{{S-end}}{{Georgetown University presidents}}{{Portal bar|Biography|Catholicism|United States}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Plunkett, Robert}}{{US-academic-administrator-stub}}{{US-RC-clergy-stub}} 8 : 1752 births|1815 deaths|18th-century Jesuits|19th-century Roman Catholic priests|English College, Douai alumni|Presidents of Georgetown University|Roman Catholic clergy|Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States |
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