Samuel Crooks
OBE TD | |
|---|---|
| Dean of Belfast | |
| In office 1970–1985 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 January 1920 |
| Died | 21 August 1986 (aged 66) |
| Spouse | Isabel née Kennedy |
Trinity College, Dublin | |
Samuel Bennett Crooks
He was born on 20 January 1920 into an ecclesiastical family (his father was the Rev. S. B. Crooks,
Queen's Birthday Honours in February 1976., and admitted OBE in 1981.[8] He died in 1986 aged 66 in a car crash on the Saintfield Road near Carryduff
on his way to a meeting at Belfast Cathedral.
In December 2014 an Ulster History Circle blue plaque was unveiled in his memory at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
Notes
- ^ Belfast Gazette
- ^ IP board Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cathedral web-site Archived 2009-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- OUP,1947
- ^ Photo of Church
- ^ London Gazette