John Crooks (priest)

John Robert Megaw Crooks[1] (9 July 1914 – 17 March 1995) was Dean of Armagh from 1979 to 1989.[2]

Crooks was educated at Campbell College and Trinity College, Dublin.[3] He was ordained in 1939. After a curacy in Dublin he was a minor canon at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was the rector of Killylea from 1944 to 1956; and vicar choral of Armagh Cathedral from 1956 to 1973.[4] He was Archdeacon of Armagh from 1973 until his move to the Deanery.

References

  1. Belfast Gazette
  2. "Deans of Armagh :: Saint Patrick's Cathedral Armagh | Church of Ireland". stpatricks-cathedral.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  3. "Crooks, John Robert Megaw". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 27 December 2017. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 p225 London, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Abraham Lockett Ford
Archdeacon of Armagh
1973–1979
Succeeded by
Frederick William Gowing
Preceded by
Henry Alexander Lillee
Dean of Armagh
1979–1989
Succeeded by
Herbert Cassidy


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