title: Robert Devenish (Archdeacon of Lahore)
text: # Robert Devenish (Archdeacon of Lahore)
  
  The Venerable Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish (22 November 1888 – 23 August 1973) was Archdeacon of Lahore from 1934 to 1940.
  
  He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1913. He was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1915 to 1919 and then a Chaplain with the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment. He was Rector of St Paul's Naval and Garrison Church, Esquimalt from 1941 to 1946; Chaplain of Upper Chine School from 1946 to 1951 and Assistant Priest of St Mary Abbots, Kensington from 1951 to 1959.
  
  