1. Robert Malcolm Gwynn was a Church of Ireland clergyman and academic whose entire working life was spent at Trinity College Dublin.
18 Facts About Robert Gwynn
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Robert Gwynn was one of eight brothers and two sisters.
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Robin Robert Gwynn was educated at St Columba's College, Rathfarnham and Trinity College Dublin.
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Robert Gwynn subsequently spent many periods working with the poor in Dublin's slums.
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Robert Gwynn was instrumental in founding the Trinity Mission, which served slum dwellers in Belfast, and was for many years actively involved in the Dublin University Fukien Mission, eventually becoming its chairman and president.
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Robin Robert Gwynn was ordained deacon in 1906, achieving full priesthood two years later.
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Robert Gwynn was the only one of Rev John Gwynn's sons to be ordained, and he never served in a parish.
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Robert Gwynn remained Lecturer in Divinity until 1919 and continued as Tutor until 1937.
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Robert Gwynn was appointed Chaplain of TCD in 1911, retaining that post until 1919.
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In January 1909 Robin Robert Gwynn was appointed Acting Warden of his old school, Saint Columba's College, which was facing a major financial crisis.
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Robert Gwynn kept the institution afloat until a new Warden was appointed.
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In 1914 Robin Robert Gwynn married Dr Eileen Gertrude Glenn, a rector's daughter from Pomeroy, County Tyrone.
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In 1916 Robin Robert Gwynn was appointed Professor of Biblical Greek, a post he held for forty years.
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Robin Robert Gwynn was tall and athletic, but in later life suffered from deafness.
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Robin Robert Gwynn died in Dublin in June 1962, aged 85, and was buried in Whitechurch churchyard.
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Robert Gwynn played four first-class matches for Dublin University in 1895.
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Robert Gwynn made his first-class debut for Dublin University against the MCC on 20 May 1895.
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Robert Gwynn played three further first-class matches for Dublin University in that year, two against Cambridge University and one against Leicestershire.