Born: 1 October 1763, Kilfannan, Co. Limerick, Ireland.
Died: 31 March 1829
Father: James Graves
Mother: Jane Ryder
Married: Elizabeth Mary Drought (1767-22 March 1827), 1 August 1787
Children:
Elizabeth Maria (Eliza), b. 1791, d. 1855. m(1) Rev. Dr. Thomas Meredith, F.T.C.D.(1777-1819),
7 July 1807; m(2) Rev. James Edward Burton (1776-1850), 1824.
Jane, b. 2 March 1793, d. 8 January 1882
James, d. 1794.
Richard Hastings, d. 1877. Rev Richard Hastings, D.D., Rector of Brigown, Co.
Cork, never married.
Hercules Henry, b. 1794, d. 1817, Aix nr. Marseilles. Never married.
Robert James M.D., b. 1796, d. 1853. m(1) Matilda Jane Eustace (1806-1825),
m(2) Sarah Brinkley (d. 1827), m(3) Ann Grogan, 18 Aug 1829.
Anna, b. 1796, d. 1863. m(1) Edward Johnson (of Ballymacash), m(2) John Mayne.
Harriet, b. 1800, d. 1855. m. Matthew Brinkley (son of Bishop Brinkley) of
Birr, Co. Offaly. (Note: Their 4th d. Anna [b. approx 1830] m. James King, 5th
Earl of Kingston, 25 August 1860 - the barony of Kingston of Mitchelstown
became extinct when they died without issue).
Arabella, d. approx 1879. Never married.
Education:
1780-1784 Trinity College, Dublin. Scholar, 1782.
Career:
Very Rev. Richard Graves, D.D., became a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1786. He was Donellan Lecturer in 1797 and 1801; Archbishop King's lecturer 1799 and 1805; Professor of Laws 1809; Regius Professor of Greek 1810; Professor of Divinity at the University of Dublin (1813); Rector of St. Michael's Church (Dublin), 1815; and Regius Professor of Divinity, 1819.
In 1807, he published his important work on The Pentateuch (published 1807), and in 1813 was made Professor of Divinity in Dublin University, and Dean of Ardagh.