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Dillon Ashe
Irish Anglican cleric
Dillon Ashe, D.D. (1666[1]-1724) was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the first half of the eighteenth century.[2]
Ashe was born in County Meath, son of Thomas Ashe and Mary St George, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin[3] and Magdalen Hall, Oxford. The incumbent at Finglas,[4] he became a Canon of Killala in 1693,[5] Archdeacon of Clogher in 1704,[6] Chancellor of Clogher in 1705, and Chancellor of Armagh in 1706.[7] He made his will on 10 July. His brother St George Ashe was successively Bishop of Cloyne, Clogher and Derry between 1695 and 1718.[8]
A friend of Jonathan Swift (who called him "Dilly"),[9] he died in 1724.[10]