Charles Richard Elrington (1787–1850) was a Church of Ireland cleric and academic, regius professor of divinity in the Trinity College Dublin.
[1] The elder son of Thomas Elrington, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin and Charlotte Preston, he was born in Dublin on 25 March 1787, and was educated at home by a private tutor.
In December 1814, he married Letitia, daughter of DavidBabington of Rutland Square, Dublin, and niece of the physician and mineralogist William Babington; she died in 1827.
Modifications were afterwards introduced into the management of the national schools, which removed, in Elrington's judgement, many of the difficulties which had induced the clergy to stand aloof from the system.
[1] In 1847 Elrington began the publication of a collected edition of the works of Archbishop James Ussher, to which he prefixed a full biography.