Aubrey Osborn Gwynn was an Irish Jesuit historian.
10 Facts About Aubrey Gwynn
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Aubrey Gwynn was born in Dublin on 17 February 1892.
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Aubrey Gwynn's father was the author and sometime Member of Parliament Stephen Gwynn; his paternal grandfather was John Gwynn, Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin.
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Aubrey Gwynn's mother Mary Gwynn was a first cousin of his father's, her own father being the Reverend James Gwynn, sometime chaplain of the Octagon Chapel, Bath.
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Aubrey Gwynn attended Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit secondary school in Kildare, near Dublin, from 1903 to 1908, then studied at University College, Dublin and Campion Hall, Oxford.
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In 1927 Father Aubrey Gwynn was appointed Lecturer in Ancient History at University College, Dublin.
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Aubrey Gwynn went on to lecture in Medieval History, then in 1948 he became the college's Professor of Medieval History, a post he retained until 1962.
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Aubrey Gwynn was President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1958 to 1961.
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Aubrey Gwynn wrote extensively on Irish and church history as well as on other topics.
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Aubrey Gwynn's brother Denis Rolleston Gwynn was an historian, being for much of his life Professor of Modern Irish History at University College, Cork.