Hamilton Townsend

{{Short description|Irish Anglican priest}}

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Hamilton Townsend (1843?-1895) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the second half of the nineteenth century'PROVINCIAL SYNOD OF ARMAGH AND TUAM' The Belfast News Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Saturday, September 11, 1869; Issue 44506.

Allen was born in County Down, educated at Trinity College, Dublin"Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)Burtchaell,G.D/Sadlier,T.U p818: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 and ordained in 1850. He was Rector of Killoran from 1862; Archdeacon of Achonry from 1862 to 1883; and a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1875. He was Dean of Achonry from 1883 Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p9 1196: London, Horace Cox, 1898 until his death.'BELFAST: MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1895' The Belfast News Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Monday, October 28, 1895