Background
He was born on Valentia Island, County Kerry on 2 September 1843 into an ecclesiastical family, the son of the Very Reverend John Godfrey Day, sometime Dean of Ardfert, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Maurice Day
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Trinity College.
Career
He held curacies at Street Luke"s, Cork and then Street Matthias"s, Dublin. He was Vicar of Greystones and then Killiney. In 1894 he returned to his old parish in Dublin as Rector, staying until 1905 when he became Dean of Ossory.
He was appointed Bishop of Clogher in 1908 and died in post on 27 May 1923.
A son John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Day was elected Archbishop of Armagh in 1938.
