Frederick Richards Wynne (19 June 1827 – 2 November 1896)Obituary. The Bishop Of KillaloeThe Times Wednesday, 4 Nov 1896; pg. 6; Issue 35039; col D was the 6thHandbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 9780521563505 Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert.The Last 24 Hours. The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (Bristol, England), Friday, 17 November 1893; Issue 14203
Educated at Trinity College Dublin, he was ordained in 1850.Multiple News Items The Standard (London, England), Wednesday, 25 December 1850; pg. ; Issue 8228. After a curacy in Carnteel he held incumbencies at St Mary, Kilkenny and St Mathias, Dublin. A Canon Residentiary at both of Dublin's cathedrals (Christ Church and St Patrick's)"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 he was also Professor of Pastoral Theology at Trinity College Dublin. In 1893 he became the Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert,"A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, F:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 a post he held until his sudden death."The Life of Frederick Richards Wynne, Bishop of Killahoe" Hannay, J: London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1897 He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
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.
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