Geoffrey Fyche

Geoffrey Fyche was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin[1] from his election on 9 March 1529[2] until his death on 8 April 1537.

[6] He is commemorated by an impressive brass monument and inscription in the cathedral.

He came from a family with a strong ecclesiastical tradition: he was almost certainly a relative, possibly a younger brother, of Thomas Fich or Fyche (died 1517), sub-prior of the convent of Holy Trinity, now Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin and author of the compilation of memoranda called the White Book of Christ Church, Dublin still preserved in the cathedral.

During the Rebellion of Silken Thomas, Fyche strongly condemned the murder of John Alen, Archbishop of Dublin, by the rebels in 1534.

After the failure of the Rebellion, however, Thomas Cromwell, who clearly wished to be rid of Fyche, accused him of undue sympathy for the rebels, and unsuccessfully sought to force his resignation from the Deanery.