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Abraham Dawson (Dean of Dromore)

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Abraham Dawson


The Very Rev. Abraham Dawson, M.A. was Dean of Dromore from 1894 until his death on 20 November 1905.

The son of a doctor, he was born in Dungannon in 1826 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin from 1844. He was ordained in 1851 and began his career at Christ Church, Belfast. After being rector of Knocknamuckley (1857) and Seagoe (1879) parishes, he became Rural Dean of Dromore in 1886, and its Archdeacon in 1892.

He is buried with his family in Knocknamuckley graveyard.

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