Joseph Rooney (priest)

Joseph Rooney (d. 1857) was an Irish missionary priest who was instrumental in the founding of a number of educational institutions in India during the period of the Company rule in India. He was killed in a massacre in the Siege of Cawnpore in India, a key episode in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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