Incumbents of Stillorgan Parish Church
Ministers
1760 - 1783 Rev Beather King
1785 - 1815 Rev Edward Beatty
1815 Rev Charles Lindsey (Elected 12th June – Resigned 19th June )
1815 Rev Rawdon Griffith Greene
1839 Rev James Kelly
1845 Rev John Grant
1858 Rev Thomas Sill Gray - Duties taken over in 1869-70 by Rev Robert Holmes Orr (Curate) due to the ill health of Dr Gray.
1872 Rev John Lombard MA (elected 14th April and declined to accept)
1872 Rev St George French
1879 Rev Samuel M Harris - Elected 30th Jan – declined 1st Feb due to there only being a salary of £100 and no residence.
1879 Canon James Houghton Kennedy
1924 Canon E H Lewis-Crosby
1938 Rev Gilbert A Lowe
1943 Canon H C Cave
1947 Canon Marcus Taylor
1986 Rev Allister Graham
2001 - 2022 Rev Ian Gallagher
2023 - Rev Kevin Conroy
Curates
1780 - 1785 Rev Edward Beatty , perpetual curate of Stillorgan
1801 - 1815 Rev John Read
1841 - 1842 Rev Robert King
1843 Rev William Rosbotham (RIP)
1844 Rev Drury
1846 Rev James Hardy
1851 Rev Augustine Fitzgerald (later Dean of Armagh)
1857 Rev Frederic W Scott
1859 Rev S S Gilmore
1863 Rev W G Boyce
1864 - 1870 Rev William Scott
1869 - 1870 Rev James Burkitt next went to Zion
1869 - 1870 Rev Robert Holmes Orr
1967 - 1971 Rev Kevin Dalton
2003 Rev Alan Matchett - living at School Lodge
2005 - 2008 Rev Leonard Ruddock - living at School Lodge
2009 - 2012 Rev Ruth Elmes
Deacon intern
2014 - 2015 Rev Kevin Conroy
Sextons
1877 - 1896 Mr John Cook
1894 - 1896 Mr Charles Sargison (assistant Sexton to his uncle John Cook)
1896 - 1904 Mr Charles Sargison
1904 - 1929 Mr Henry Goodley
1939 - 1951 Henry McQueston
1951 - 1971 Douglas (Dougie) Haig Rath
1971 - 1986 Mrs Brigid Ferguson
1987 - 2013 Tommy Rath
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