James Adams (archdeacon of Kildare)

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James Adams (1780-1864) was the last discrete Archdeacon of Kildare[http://www.kildare.ie/ehistory/2007/01/post_10.asp County Kildare Online Electric History Journal (1)]

Adams was educated at Moore Theological CollegeCrockford's Clerical Directory p7: Oxford, Horace Cox, 1917 and ordained in

1871. He served curacies in Townsville, Merston, Twickenham, Richmond and Greenwich. He became the Incumbent at Kill, County Kildare in 1878; Rural Dean of Naas in 1895; and Precentor of Kildare Cathedral in 1898. His son was killed in the First World War.[http://www.kildare.ie/ehistory/index.php/maurice-alwyn-adams-killed-in-action/ County Kildare Online Electric History Journal (2)]