Anthony Kirwan (priest) explained

Anthony La Touche Kirwan^[1] was an Irish Anglican priest.^[2]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of the Walter Blake Kirwan, Dean of Killala from 1800 to 1805 ^[3] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.

He was Dean of Kilmacduagh from 1839 to 1849; and then of Limerick from then until his death on 13 July 1868.^[4]

He married Susan, the daughter of William Blacker, of Woodbrook, Wexford. Two of their daughters married Thomas William Anderson of Gracedieu, Co. Waterford.^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://www.thepeerage.com/p26190.htm#i261897 thePeerage.com
2. "The book of dignities" Ockerley, H: London, W.H. Allen and Co., 1890
3. "Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland" Cotton, H: Dublin Hodges 1848
4. ’Death of the Dean of Limerick’ Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Tuesday, 14 July 1868
5. Book: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland.