Anthony Kirwan (priest)

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]

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  1. ^ thePeerage.com
  2. ^ "The book of dignities" Ockerley, H: London, W.H. Allen and Co., 1890
  3. ^ "Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland" Cotton, H: Dublin Hodges 1848
  4. ^ ’Death of the Dean of Limerick’ Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Tuesday, 14 July 1868
  5. ^ Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland.
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Dean of Kilmacduagh
1839–1949
Succeeded by
Preceded by Dean of Limerick
1849–1868
Succeeded by