Dillon Ashe

Dillon Ashe, D.D. (1666[1]-1724)was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the first half of the eighteenth century.[2]

Ashe was born in County Meath; and educated at Trinity College, Dublin[3] and Magdalen Hall, Oxford. The incumbent at Finglas,[4] he became a Canon of Killala in 1693;[5] was Archdeacon of Clogher from 1704 to 1705;[6] Chancellor of Clogher in 1705; and Chancellor of Armagh in 1706.[7] He made his will on 10 July. His brother St George Ashe was successively Bishop of Cloyne, Clogher and Derry between 1695 and 1718.[8]

He died in 1724.[9]

References

  1. "Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In" Hammond,E p772: Newark, Delaware; University of Delaware Press; 2016 ISBN 978-1-61149-607-9
  2. British History on-line
  3. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p22: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. "The works of Jonathan Swift" Sheridan, T (Ed) p34: New York, William Durrell, 1813
  5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton,H. p32 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  6. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" ppp89/90 Cotton,H. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p40 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  8. Library of Ireland
  9. "The epistolary correspondence of Sir Richard Steele" Nichols, J (Ed) p185: London, Longmans, 1809



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