Bishop Wyse Jackson

Robert Wyse Jackson was an eminent Irish Bishop and author. He was born in 1908, the son of Richard William Jackson and Belinda Hester nee Sherlock. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin where he qualified as a barrister. Though he changed vocations and was ordained as a clergyman in the Church of Ireland in 1934. He began his career as a curate at St James’s Church in Salford. He became rector of St Michaels in Limerick in 1940 and later became dean of the Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist and St Patrick’s Rock in Cashel in 1946. In 1961 he became the Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe where he stayed until his retirement in 1970, the same year he was became a freeman of Limerick City. After he retired he moved to  Greystones and resided at Vellore on Whitshed Road. He died in Greystones in October 1976.
His works included the specialist book Irish Silver (1972), The story of Limerick (1973), Cathedrals of the Church of Ireland (1971), Jonathan Swift, dean and Pastor (1939) and Archbishop Magrath: The scoundrel of Cashel (1974).

Bibliography

St. Martin’s Press: Who’s who, 1968-1969 an annual biographical dictionary, New York : St. Martin’s Press (1968)

Williams, Fionnuala Carson; Robert Wyse Jackson, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (2023)