William Colvin (priest)

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William Evans Colvin (26 January 1858, Co. Limerick–30 September 1949, Brighton) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries.{{cite web | url=https://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/records/c19.pdf | author=Representative Church Body Library | location=Dublin | title=Records of St Patrick's Cathedral, Killala] | date=2003 | accessdate=19 November 2021 }}

Colvin was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1890. He served curacies in Killoran, Didsbury and Wotton, Surrey. He was the incumbent at Dromard from 1895 to 1926 and Archdeacon of Killala from 1911The Guardian publishes the following list of preferments and appointments

The Times (London, England), Friday, 27 January 1911; pg. 5; Issue 39493 until 1928 when he became Dean of Killala.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p 261: London, OUP, 1929