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词条 Charles Graves (bishop)
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Publications

  4. Private life

  5. References

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Charles Graves FRS (6 December 1812 – 17 July 1899) was a 19th-century Anglican Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. He was President of the Royal Irish Academy, Dean of the Chapel Royal at Dublin Castle and a noted mathematician.

Early life

Born at 12 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, the son of John Crosbie Graves (1776–1835), Chief Police Magistrate for Dublin, by his wife Helena Perceval, the daughter and co-heiress of the Revd Charles Perceval (1751–1795) of Bruhenny, County Cork. Helena enjoyed the patronage of John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, who married a daughter of her father's cousin, John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont.

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was elected a Scholar in classics, and in 1834 graduated BA as Senior Moderator in mathematics, getting his MA in 1838. He played cricket for Trinity, and later in his life did much boating and fly-fishing. It was intended that he should join the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot under his uncle, Major-General James William Graves (1774–1845), and in preparation he had become an expert swordsman and rider.

Career

After leaving Trinity College, Graves followed in the steps of his grandfather, Thomas Graves, (appointed Dean of Ardfert in 1785 and Dean of Connor in 1802) and his great uncle, Richard Graves. He was appointed a fellow of Trinity College from 1836 to 1843 before taking the professorship of mathematics, a position he held until 1862.

In 1860 he was appointed Dean of the Chapel Royal and, from 1864 to 1866, he was the Dean of Clonfert before being consecrated as Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, a position he held for 33 years until his death in 1899. He had been elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1837 and subsequently held various officerships, including President from 1861 to 1866.. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1880[1] and received the honorary degree of DCL from Oxford University in 1881.

A gentleman and a scholar he was well respected as the Bishop of Limerick. He and the Catholic Bishop (O'Dwyer) were on the very best of terms. They cracked Latin jokes at each other, discussed fine points of scholarship and were unclerical enough not to take their religious differences too seriously[2]

Bishop O'Dwyer had once joked at the size of Graves' family of nine and Graves retorted with the text about the blessedness of the man who has his quiver full of arrows, to which O'Dwyer replied "The ancient Jewish Quiver only held six."{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

Publications

In 1841 Graves published an original mathematical work and he embodied further discoveries in his lectures and in papers read before and published by the Royal Irish Academy. He was a colleague of Sir William Rowan Hamilton and on the latter's death Graves gave a presidential panegyric containing a valuable account both of Hamilton's scientific labours and of his literary attainments.

Graves was very interested in Irish antiquarian subjects. He discovered the key to the ancient Irish Ogham script which appeared as inscriptions on cromlechs and other stone monuments. He also prompted the government to publish the old Irish Brehon Laws, Early Irish Law. His suggestion was adopted and he was appointed a member of the Commission to do this.

Private life

His official residence was The Palace at Limerick, but from the 1850s he took the lease of Parknasilla House, County Kerry, as a summer residence. In 1892 he bought out the lease of the house and a further {{convert|114|acre|km2}} of land that included a few islands. In 1894 he sold it to Great Southern Hotels, who still own it to this day.

  • Parknasilla, today{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • View from Parknasilla House

On 15 September 1840,[3] Charles Graves married Selina, daughter of John Cheyne, Physician-General to the Forces in Ireland, an associate of Graves's father's cousin, Robert James Graves. Graves was the father of the poet Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931), of Arnold Felix Graves (1847–1930), the founder of (what is now) Dublin Institute of Technology, of the writer and critic Charles Larcom Graves (1856–1944), and of the diplomat Sir Robert Wyndham Graves (1858–1934). He was the grandfather of Philip Graves, Robert Graves, Charles Patrick Graves and Cecil Graves.

References

1. ^{{cite web| url = http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27graves%27%29|title= Library Archive|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate = 6 August 2013}}
2. ^History of Ballylickey Manor House {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701191603/http://www.ballylickeymanorhouse.com/history/ |date=1 July 2010 }}
3. ^http://www.thepeerage.com/p24788.htm#i247875
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