Name Aubrey Gwynn | ||
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Died May 18, 1983, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Books Medieval religious houses: Ireland | ||
Aubrey Osborn Gwynn (1892 – 18 May 1983) was an Irish Jesuit historian.
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Life
He came from a Protestant academic family, the son of Stephen Gwynn and the grandson of John Gwynn, professor of theology at Trinity College Dublin. Gwynn converted to Roman Catholicism at age 10, when his mother was received into the Catholic Church. He attended the Jesuit-run Clongowes Wood College from 1903 to 1908. A watercolour portrait of him as a child by his godfather Walter Osborne is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Gwynn was professor of medieval history at University College Dublin and President of the Royal Irish Academy (1958–1961). His brother Denis Rolleston Gwynn (1893–1971) was professor of modern Irish history at University College, Cork.
He wrote on Irish and church history, but also on topics including the West Indies. He held the Chair of Medieval History at University College Dublin from 1949 to 1963.