Dillon Ashe,

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(1666-1724) was an

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in the first half of the eighteenth century. Ashe was born in

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, son of Thomas Ashe and Mary St George, and educated at

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and

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. The incumbent at

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, he became a Canon of Killala in 1693,

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in 1704,

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in 1705, and

of Armagh in 1706. He made his will on 10 July. His brother

St George Ashe St. George Ashe, D.D. (3 March 1657 – 27 February 1718) was an Irish mathematician who served as the 15th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1692 to 1695. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, he served as Church of Ireland Bishop o ...

was successively Bishop of Cloyne, Clogher and Derry between 1695 and 1718. A friend of

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. In 1713, he became the Dean (Christianity), dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swi ...

(who called him "Dilly"), he died in 1724."The epistolary correspondence of Sir Richard Steele" Nichols, J (Ed) p185: London, Longmans, 1809

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18th-century Irish Anglican priests Christian clergy from County Meath Archdeacons of Clogher Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 1724 deaths 1666 births {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub