James Gregg (priest)

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

Biography

He was born into an ecclesiastical familyHis uncle and cousin were both bishops in 1820 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.‘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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U186579, accessed 2 Jan 2013] He was ordained in 1844 and after curacies at Yoxford, Kiltullagh and Collon held incumbencies in Balbriggan and Limerick{{cite web | url=http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/19488/eppi_pages/527830 | publisher=Dippam | title=Supplemental Scheme for Management of Diocesan Schools and Banagher Royal Schools Endowment | page=8 | accessdate=9 August 2020 }} before[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1895/may/20/education-endowments-ireland-limerick Hansard] until his elevation to the Deanery."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900

He died on 31 October 1905.{{cite news | title=The Dean Of Limerick | newspaper=The Times | location=London, England | date=27 September 1913 | page=9 | issue=40328 }} (Obituaries)

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Category:1820 births

Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin

Category:Deans of Limerick

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