Frederick Wynne


Frederick Richards Wynne was the 6th Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert.
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1850. After a curacy in Carnteel he held incumbencies at St Mary, Kilkenny and St Mathias, Dublin. A Canon Residentiary at both Dublin’s cathedrals he was also Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Dublin. In 1893 he became the Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert, a post he held until his sudden death. He had become a Doctor of Divinity.
His son Henry Vynne also became a priest, and was Vicar of the parish church in Yapton, Sussex. A daughter married another priest, the rev. W. H. Harper; while his third daughter Florence Anne Wynne married in 1902 the architect and architectural historian Philip Mainwaring Johnston.