John Gwynn (Syriacist)
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John Gwynn was an Irish Syriacist. He was Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin from 1888 to 1907.
John Gwynn DD, Professor of Divinity
Letter written by John Gwynn's daughter Lucy describing Mary Stevenson's death by drowning
Ellen Green's letter to her cousin John Gwynn
Rev Stephen Gwynne, John Gwynn's father, c.1840
Robert Gwynn
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Robert Malcolm Gwynn was a Church of Ireland clergyman and academic whose entire working life was spent at Trinity College Dublin. In his youth, he was also an outstanding cricketer.
John Gwynn (Syriacist)
…again a talented cricketer, who joined the Indian Civil Service, was sent out to Burma and died there, of septicaemia, at the age of twenty-one; Robert (Robin) Malcolm Gwynn (1877–1962), a cleric-academic like his father, who was a long-serving, very active Fellow of Trinity College and a bold champion of liberal causes…
Gwynn as a young don
Dublin University team of 1895 - R M Gwynn is in the back row, far right
The 1898 team with Robin Gwynn (centre) as captain