James Bennett Keene was an Irish Anglican bishop

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 in the Church of Ireland

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 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Keene was educated at Rathmines School and Trinity College, Dublin

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. He was ordained in 1879 and was the rector

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 of Navan

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 and headmaster of Navan College before his ordination to the episcopate as the Bishop of Meath. He died on 5 August 1919 and two years later his wife published a memorial to him.