George Thomas Stokes

In 1868, he was nominated first vicar of the newly constituted charge of All Saints, Newtown Park, Co. Dublin, which he held till his death.

[1] From the date of his appointment to All Saints, Stokes studied Irish ecclesiastical history of his own country.

Dr. Reichel made him his deputy in the chair of ecclesiastical history in the university of Dublin; and in 1883, Stokes was appointed his successor.

It was followed in 1888 by his Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church, in which the history of Irish Christianity was traced through a further stage.

He was an occasional contributor on subjects connected with theology and ecclesiastical history to the Contemporary Review.

In 1887, he was appointed librarian of St. Patrick's Library, in Dublin, while continuing with clerical duties.

In 1896, he delivered a series of lectures entitled How to write a Parochial History; and the following year began a course of lectures on Great Irish Churchmen of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, which he did not live to complete; they were edited, under the title Some Worthies of the Irish Church (London, 1900), after his death by the Rev.