Edward John Gwynn

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Edward John Gwynn was born on 1 April 1868, the son of Very Reverend John Gwynn and Lucy Josephine O'Brien.

He married Olive Mary Ponsonby, daughter of Colonel J. G. Ponsonby, in 1905.

He died in February 1941 at age 72.

He was educated at St Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland, and then at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

He was a Fellow in 1893 at Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland; Professor of Celtic Language between 1898 and 1904 at Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland; Commissioner of National Education between 1905 and 1915; Lecturer in Celtic Language at Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.

He was a member of the council for many years at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and a leading figure in the successful "Hands off Trinity" Campaign. He was the provost between 1927 and 1937 at Trinity College, Ireland. His appointment as Provost (following 20 difficult years under Drs Traill, Mahaffy and Bernard) was a gesture of reconciliation on part of the Cosgrave Government.

He was president of the Royal Irish Academy between 1934 and 1937 at Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.

He was a distinguished scholar of Old Irish (but was lampooned for his lack of interest in the spoken modern language by Douglas Hyde in Pléascadh na Bolgide ("The bursting of the bubble")).

He wrote the book 'Liber Flavis Fergus' and he wrote the book 'Monastery of Tallaght', with Walter Purton. He wrote the book 'Rule of Tallaght', (special volume of Hermathene).

He wrote the book 'An Old Irish tract on the privileges and responsibilities of Poets, Roman Catholics and Trinity College, etc.'

He was instrumental in forming a new catalogue of medieval and modern Irish manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy. He generously gave his work on Irish manuscripts at Montpellier to Dean Lawlor (who published it in The Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy).