{{short description|Anglican bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2020}} '''John Percy Phair''' (1 November 1876<ref>“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|071363457X}}</ref> – 28 December 1967) was a 20th-century Anglican bishop.<ref>"Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 {{ISBN|052156350X}}, 9780521563505</ref>
John Percy Phair was born in Roscommon, the son of a farmer Peter Phair and Martha Phair, of Ram Park, Castlerea, County Roscommon. He had younger brothers Edgar and Casper.
Educated at Trinity College Dublin, Phair was ordained in 1900. He held curacies in Conwal, Church Hill, County Donegal and Monkstown, Dublin and incumbencies in St Catherine's, Thomas Street, Dublin and Christ Church Leeson Park. He was Rural Dean of Rathdowney<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941</ref> and then Dean of Ossory (1923–1940) <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stcanicescathedral.com/visitors-information-page50552.html |title=St Canice's Cathedral and Round Tower |access-date=31 December 2010 |archive-date=22 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222063013/http://www.stcanicescathedral.com/visitors-information-page50552.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> before becoming Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in 1940.<ref>"A New History of Ireland "Moody,T.M; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0198217455}}</ref> He retired in 1961; and died on 28 December 1967.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}
Phair married Alice Maude Banks (1883–1945) from Belfast. They had several children: Kenneth Meade Phair, Sheila Maude Phair, and Rev. Edgar Nevill Phair. Following the death of his first wife, Phair married Pauline Beryl Eustace (1906–90) from Hillside Farm, Hampstead, Glasnevin, on 30 July 1958. {{Portal|Christianity}}
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