Henry Stewart O’Hara (6 September 1843 – 11 December 1923) was an eminent Church of Ireland bishopNational Library of Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Handbook of British Chronology by Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E; Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996, , 9780521563505
Church appointments O’Hara was born on 6 September 1843 into an ecclesiastical family. His father was Rector of Coleraine,"Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 a post he, Henry, was to hold from 1869 to 1894. Educated at Leicester Collegiate School and Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1867. While based in Coleraine, he was Chancellor of Connor Cathedral from 1884 to 1898. In 1894 he was appointed Vicar of Belfast. In 1897 he became a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and in 1899 he became the first dean of Belfast. In a meeting of the Bench of Bishops of the Church of Ireland on 6 February 1900, he was elected Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore,"A New History of Ireland" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 and he was consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Dublin at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 24 February 1900. He was formally installed at Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, on 17 March 1900. He served as such until his retirement in 1919."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Kellys, 1913
Following his consecration as bishop, he received the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Sacra Theologia from Trinity College, Dublin in February 1900.
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O'Hara married Hatton Thomasina Scott, eldest daughter of Thomas Scott of Willsboro (1783–1872) and his third wife Katharine Elizabeth Richardson, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Richardson of Somerset, co. Londonderry.A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke He died on 11 December 1923.
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