John West was an Irish

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priest. He was

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in the

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from 1864 to 1889. Educated at

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, he was

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in 1830 and began his ordained ministry career as

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. He was the

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at St Ann's Dublin, and then

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of the city before his appointment to the eanery, a post he held for 25 years. He died on 5 July 1890. His son

Charles Dickinson West Charles Dickinson West (January 1847 – 10 January 1908) was an Irish mechanical engineer and naval architect, who worked for many years at the Imperial College of Engineering, in Meiji era Japan. Biography West was born in Dublin, Ireland a ...

became an engineer and naval architect.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:West, John 1806 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Dublin Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1890 deaths