Alexander Major Kearney was an Irish Anglican clergyman.[1]

Kearney was educated at Trinity College Dublin;[2] and ordained in 1865. After a curacy in Mohill he became the incumbent at St John Sligo in 1876. He was Archdeacon of Elphin from 1880 until 1904;[3] and the Dean of Elphin from then[4] until his death on 8 April 1912.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 806: LOndon, Horace Cox, 1929
  2. ↑ "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) p453: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  4. ↑ ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, February 14, 1880; pg. 2; Issue 3513
  5. ↑ The Dean Of Elphin The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Apr 09, 1912; pg. 9; Issue 39868


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