John Pentland Mahaffy

Sir John Mahaffy
34th Provost of Trinity College Dublin
In office
17 October 1914 – 30 July 1919
Preceded byAnthony Traill
Succeeded byJohn Bernard
Personal details
Born
John Pentland Mahaffy

(1839-02-26)26 February 1839
Vevey, Switzerland
Died30 April 1919(1919-04-30) (aged 80)
Dublin, Ireland
SpouseFrances Letitia MacDougall (m. 1865; d. 1908)
Children4
Alma materTrinity College Dublin (B.A., 1859)

Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, GBE, CVO (26 February 1839 – 30 April 1919) was an Irish classicist and polymathic scholar who served as the 34th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1914 to 1919.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Obit. Sir John Pentland Mahaffy". The Methodist Review. 79: 507–516. July 1919.
  2. ^ "Obit. John Pentland Mahaffy". Hermathena. 42: v–viii. 1920.
  3. ^ "Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland". Who's Who: 1622–1623. 1919.