Maurice John Talbot was

Dean of Limerick The Dean of Limerick and Ardfert is a Church of Ireland official based in the Cathedral Church of St Mary's in the united diocese of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert. There had been two separate deans, Dean of Limerick and Dean of Ardfert, unti ...

from 1954 to 1971. He was born on 29 March 1912 into an ecclesiastical family, the second son of the Very Rev. Joseph Talbot, Dean of Cashel, and was educated at St Columba's College and

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. He was ordained in 1936 and after a

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in Nantenan he held incumbencies at

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and then

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before his elevation to the

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. He died 17 June 1999.Independent obituary
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1912 births 1999 deaths People educated at St Columba's College, Dublin Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Limerick 20th-century Irish Anglican priests {{Ireland-Anglican-dean-stub