George Swain (priest)

George Lill Swain was Dean of Limerick[1] from 1929 to 1953.[2]

He was born in 1870 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1894 and after curacies at Drummaul and Limerick worked overseas in Valencia[3] before incumbencies at Kilkeedy, Dysert and St Michael, Limerick.[4]

He died on 26 April 1955.[5]

Notes
  1. Genealogical web site
  2. ‘SWAIN, Very Rev. George Lill’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 2 Jan 2013
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1948
  4. Buildings of Ireland
  5. Who was Who on-line (ibid)


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