{{Short description|Anglican priest (d. 1600)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}}'''Robert Grave''' was an Anglican priest in the last years of the sixteenth century.<ref>''Handbook of British Chronology'' By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 {{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}, 0713642556</ref>

Born in Kent, he was educated at Cambridge University.<ref>Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press [https://archive.org/stream/p1alumnicantabri02univuoft#page/248/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. ii Dabbs – Juxton (1922) p248 ]</ref> He was appointed Dean of Cork in 1590;<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p239 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> Precentor of Limerick in 1591;<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p398 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in 1595;<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p51 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in July 1600.<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p335 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> He and his family were drowned in Dublin Bay in October that year.<ref>[http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/02Hist/aOctober.html Today in Irish History]</ref>

==References== <references /> {{S-start}} {{S-rel|ie}} {{S-bef|before=Thomas Long}} {{S-ttl|title=Dean of Cork|years=1590–1600}} {{S-aft|after=Thomas Ram}} {{S-bef|before=Hugh Allen (bishop)}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin|years=<small>July</small>1600 – <small>October</small>1600}} {{S-aft|after=Nicholas Statford}} {{S-end}}

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