Thomas Burgh (priest) explained

Type:Dean
Honorific Prefix:The Very Reverend
Thomas Burgh
Church:Church of Ireland
Elected:Dean of Cloyne
Term:1823–1845
Predecessor:Alexander Arbuthnot
Successor:Hervey de Montmorency
Birth Name:Thomas John Burgh
Birth Date:1786 5, df=yes
Birth Place:County Kildare, Ireland
Death Place:Naas, County Kildare, Ireland
Nationality:Irish
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Dublin

Thomas John Burgh (6 May 1786 – 4 September 1845) was an Irish cleric who was Dean of Cloyne from 1823[1] until his death on 4 September 1845.[2]

Burgh was born in County Kildare and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] After a curacy in Letterkenny, he served incumbencies at Kilbixy and Ballinrobe.[4] He died at Naas in 1845.[5]

References

  1. IRELAND The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, 29 October 1823; Issue 17013
  2. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, 13 September 1845; Issue 5832
  3. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p113: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. "Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" Brady, W.M. pp205/6: London; Longmans; 1864
  5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p310 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878