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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