Clergyman, professor.
Born at Portrush, County Antrim, Ireland on 28 June 1893, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. de Pauley of Parkmount, Portadown, Ireland, he was educated at the Coleraine Academy and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was Senior Moderator and Gold Medallist in Mental and Moral Philosophy. He was Auditor of the College Theological Society. Editor of “T.C.D.” Bp. Forester and Downes. Prizeman, M.A.B.D.
In 1917, he was ordained in the St. Canice’s Cathedral at Kilkenny and served as Curate of Enniscorthy, Wexford (1917) and Booterstown, Dublin (1919). In 1920, he came to Winnipeg where he was Professor of Systematic Theology and Lecturer in Philosophy at St. John’s College and Canon of St. John’s Cathedral. He lived at 2 O’Meara Street, Winnipeg.
He was married to Sara Winifred Johnson (1891-1947), late Scholar and Moderator in Classics (BA) at Trinity College, Dublin, the daughter of Archdeacon Johnson, County Longford, Ireland.
He died on 30 March 1968 and was buried in the Kilternan Church of Ireland Cemetery in Kilternan, County Cublin, Ireland.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
William Cecil De Pauley, FindAGrave.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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