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Robert Cooper Wills

Irish archdeacon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ19519325 ↗
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Robert Cooper Wills was Archdeacon of Cloyne from 1889 until 1919.

Wills was born at Carrick-on-Shannon on 30 December 1836, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1862. After curacies at Shinrone, Dunkerrin and Lorrha he held incumbencies at Kanturk and Timoleague before his appointment as Archdeacon.

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“Robert Cooper Wills” enters the record as irish archdeacon. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robert, Cooper and Wills can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 1919, 1836, 1862—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1836-12-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Robert, Cooper and Wills.
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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Cooper Wills” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.