James Gregg (priest)

James Fitzgerald Gregg was Dean of Limerick from 1899 to 1905.

Biography

He was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] in 1820 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was ordained in 1844 and after curacies at Yoxford, Kiltullagh and Collon held incumbencies in Balbriggan and Limerick[3] before[4] until his elevation to the Deanery.[5]

He died on 31 October 1905.[6]

Notes

  1. His uncle and cousin were both bishops
  2. ‘GREGG, Very Rev. James Fitzgerald’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 2 Jan 2013
  3. Dippam
  4. Hansard
  5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  6. The Dean Of Limerick The Times (London, England), Saturday, Sep 27, 1913; pg. 9; Issue 40328 (Obituaries)
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Thomas Bunbury
Dean of Limerick
1899–1905
Succeeded by
Lucius Henry O'Brien
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