Background
He was the eldest son of George Connor, master in chancery in Ireland. He married Maude Worthington in 1852, eldest daughter of John Worthington of Kent House, Southsea.
He was the eldest son of George Connor, master in chancery in Ireland. He married Maude Worthington in 1852, eldest daughter of John Worthington of Kent House, Southsea.
He graduated Bachelor in 1845 and proceeded Master of Arts in 1851 at Trinity College, Dublin, and was ordained deacon in 1846 and priest in 1847.
He officiated for a time at Street Thomas"s Chapel, Newport, Isle of Wight. He was then curate at Street Jude"s, Southsea then Wareham, Dorset, before returning to Newport as vicar in 1852, where his drive and initiative got the parish church rebuilt for £22,000 (with Prince Albert laying the foundation stone), a new vicarage and almhouses built, and local schools improved. Developing a relationship with Queen Victoria, residing mainly at nearby Osborne House at this time, he became for many years her honorary chaplain and chaplain-in-ordinary, chaplain to the governor of the Isle of Wight, and official and commissary of the archdeaconry of Wight, culminating in his appointment as Dean of Windsor in October 1882 by the queen herself, without consulting Gladstone.
Connor departed from Newport, to the parishioners" general regret, but proved unsuited to the pressures of such a prominent deanery as Windsor.
His health rapidly failed (his presence at the christening of Princess Alice of Albany on 26 March 1883 took a great effort) and though he preached often in the private chapel, he only preached once in Street George"s Chapel before dying in office in 1883.
