Robert Devenish (Dean of Cashel)

Robert Jones Sylvester Devenish was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1874. After a curacy at St Patrick, Waterford he was Vicar of Cahir from 1874 to 1881. He married Rosamond Price on 5 February 1877: they had a daughter and three sons, one of whom was later Archdeacon of Lahore. He was Prebendary of Rossduff in Waterford Cathedral from1883 to 1886; Archdeacon of Waterford from 1886 to 1913; and Dean of Cashel from 1913 until his death on 16 September 1916.