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]

Notes

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.

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Preceded by John Thomas O'Neil	Dean of Kilmacduagh 1839–1949	Succeeded by Joseph Aldrich Bermingham
Preceded by William Higgin	Dean of Limerick 1849–1868	Succeeded by Maurice Fitzgerald Day