Stokes, George Thomas

Irish ecclesiastical historian; b. at Athlone (70 m. w. of Dublin), Ireland, Dec. 28, 1843; d. in Dublin Mar. 24, 1898. He studied at Galway grammar-school and at Queens College, Galway; was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1864; M.A., 1871; B.D., 1881; and D.D., 1886); was vicar of All Saints, Newtown Park, Dubblin, 1868-98; became assistant to the regius professor of divinity, 1880, and professor of ecclesiastical history in the University of Dublin, 1883; librarian of St. Patrick’s Library, Dublin, 1887; and prebend and canon of St. Andrew, 1893. He published Ireland and the Celtic Church. A History of Ireland from St. Patrick to the English Conquest in 1172 (London, 1886); a commentary on the Acts, 2 vols., in The Expositor’s Bible (1888); Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church. A History of Ireland and Irish Christianity from the Anglo-Norman Conquest to the Dawn of the Reformation (1889); Dudley Loftus: A Dublin Antiquary of the seventeenth Century (Dublin, 1890); The Island Monasteries of Wales and Ireland (1891); St. Fechin of Fone, and his Monastery (1892); Greek in Gaul and Western Europe down to A.D. 700. The Knowledge of Greek in Ireland between A.D. 500 and 900... (1892); Calendar of the Liber Niger Alani (1893); and, in collaboration with C. H. H. Wright, The Writings of St. Patrick; a Translation, with Notes (1887).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: DNB, Supplement iii. 361-362; Athenaeum, Apr. 2, 1898.