Crinus Irwin (1771 - 1859) was an Anglican priest"Her Story in Four Centuries" Webber, S.M. p133: Houston, Strategic, 2014 in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,"Wilson's Dublin Directory, for the Year 1830" p190 (Chapter of St Patrick's, Dublin) Dublin, William Corbet, 1830 most notably Archdeacon of Ossory"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p307 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 from 1822 until his death on 17 December 1859.Deaths The Belfast News Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Friday, 23 December 1859; Issue 13576. British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900
He was born in Tanrego, County Sligo, the second son of Lewis-Francis Irwin and his wife Elizabeth Harrison of Lincoln.Burke, John "History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland" London Henry Colburn 1836 p.101 The first name Crinus is said to be unique to the Irwin family, who came to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell and later settled in Sligo. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1790Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 *Vol. iii. Gabb – Justamond, 1947 p528 and graduated B.A in 1794. In 1807 he graduated M.A. from Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U p429: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was ordained in 1794, and in 1797 was appointed Vicar choral of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. In 1799 he was appointed Prebendary of St Patrick's."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p163 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 He was Vicar general of the Diocese of Ferns and Leighlin from 1822 until 1835."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p347 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
He married in 1807 Amy Chamberlain, daughter of William Tankerville Chamberlain, justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) and Lucy Boyd.Burke "Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland " Amy died in 1849. They had six children, including John, Lewis, (a Captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers), Amy, Elizabeth and Lucy, who are buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. Amy married a Tankerville cousin; Elizabeth and Lucy never married.
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