Background
TYRRELL, Robert Yelverton was born on January 21, 1844 in Ballingarry, Company Tipperary. Youngest son of Reverend Henry Tyrrell.
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Robert Yelverton TYRRELL
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Studied at private school, Dublin. Trinity College Dublin. Honours in Classics (1st gold medal).
Philosophy (4th gold medal). Senior Moderatorship in both, 1864. Doctor of Letters; Doctor of Laws, Edinburgh.
Doctor of Civil Law.
Career
Fellow, 1868; Professor of Latin, 1871. Regius Professor of Greek, Dublin, 1880-1898. Senior Tutor and Public Orator, 1899.
Professor of Ancient History, 1900-1904, which with other offices he resigned on being co-opted as one of the Senior Fellows and appointed Registrar, April 1904. One of the original Fifty Fellows of the British Academy. One of the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, 1881. Dublin, Cambridge, and Durham; and St. Andrews; Oxford; Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.
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Clubs : University and Common Room.
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British