Thom's Irish Who's Who/Hemphill, Rev. Samuel

HEMPHILL, Rev. Samuel, D.D., Litt.D. (T.C.D.), Rector of Drumbeg near Belfast, 1920: Examining Chaplain to Archbishop of Dublin, 1915. Educ.: Clonmel; Tipperary; Dublin University. Professor of Biblical Greek, Dublin University, 1888-98; Select preacher in Dublin University, 1892-93, 1899; Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1909-14; Chancellor of Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, 1919-20; Member of the Royal Irish Academy. 1893. Pubns.: The Diatessaron of Tatian, 1888; My Neighbour 1897: The Satires of Persius translated, 1900; A History of the Revised Version of the New Testament, 1906; b. Clonmel, 5th July 1859; son of late Robt. Hemphill, Springhill, Co. Tipperary; m. Flora Murcaret, dau. of Rev. Alexander Delap, Rector of Valencia, Co. Kerry, 1885; has issue three sons, four daus. Res.: Drumbeg Rectory, Dunmurry, Co. Antrim.