John West was an Irish Anglican priest. He was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in the Church of Ireland from 1864 to 1889.Handbook of British Chronology by Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 9780521563505
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1830 and began his ordained ministry career as curate at Monkstown, Dublin. He was the incumbent at St Ann's Dublin, and then archdeacon of the city before his appointment to the Deanery,A New History of Ireland by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne a post he held for 25 years.The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co 1889 He died on 5 July 1890.
His son Charles Dickinson West became an engineer and naval architect.
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