Robert Burrowes

(1756 c.-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Burrowes, Robert, 1756?-1841 NRA: Burrowes, Robert (d 1841) Dean of Cork LBT ID: RoBurro1841 VIAF ID: 40815641 LOC ID: n85181895	B/BAP: 1756 DIED: 1841
SOURCES: D. J. O'Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (1912) 49; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was Dean of Cork and a noted Irish wit who denied writing the song “De Nite before Larry was stretched.”
REFERENCES TO Robert Burrowes: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1825 Found 1: ¶ 33 Sir Arthur Clarke to Lady Morgan, 19 May 1857 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 2 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXVIII