Anthony Kirwan (priest)
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Anthony La Touche Kirwan[1] was an Irish Anglican priest.[2]
He was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of the Walter Blake Kirwan, Dean of Killala from 1800 to 1805 [3] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[citation needed]
He was Dean of Kilmacduagh from 1839 to 1849; and then of Limerick from then until his death on 13 July 1868.[4]
He married Susan, the daughter of William Blacker, of Woodbrook, Wexford. Two of their daughters married Thomas William Anderson of Gracedieu, Co. Waterford.[5]
Notes[edit]
- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ "The book of dignities" Ockerley, H: London, W.H. Allen and Co., 1890
- ^ "Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland" Cotton, H: Dublin Hodges 1848
- ^ ’Death of the Dean of Limerick’ Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Tuesday, 14 July 1868
- ^ Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland.
