Robert Walsh was an Irish Anglican priest[1] who was the Archdeacon of Dublin from 1909[2] until his death on 24 February 1917.
Walsh was the eldest son of John Edward Walsh, Master of the Rolls in Ireland and formerly Member of Parliament for Dublin University by his wife Blair Belinda MacNeill, daughter of Captain Gordon MacNeill.
[4] After curacies in Tamlaght Finlagan and Dublin he held incumbencies in Malahide and Donnybrook.
[citation needed] He married firstly in 1873 Elizabeth Sophia Carson, daughter of the Reverend Joseph Carson, Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, by whom he had three sons and two daughters.
Henry Deane Walsh, perhaps the foremost Australian engineer of his time, was his younger brother.