In Retrospect: Robert Wyse Jackson
Robert Wyse Jackson, born in 1908, was the last of the polymaths; he was a barrister, a historian, a playwright and a competent water colourist and an expert on Irish silver about which he wrote a book which is still regarded as a standard work. In addition to all that he wrote a weekly column in The Church of Ireland Gazette, which was a marvel of erudition about everything and anything in the Church’s past and present.
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Robert MacCarthy
was formerly Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.