Dillon Ashe, D.D. (1666"Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In" Hammond, E p772: Newark, Delaware; University of Delaware Press; 2016 -1724) was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the first half of the eighteenth century.British History on-line
Ashe was born in County Meath, son of Thomas Ashe and Mary St George, and educated at 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, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p22: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 and Magdalen Hall, Oxford. The incumbent at Finglas,"The works of Jonathan Swift" Sheridan, T (Ed) p34: New York, William Durrell, 1813 he became a Canon of Killala in 1693,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p32 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Archdeacon of Clogher in 1704,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" ppp89/90 Cotton, H. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Chancellor of Clogher in 1705, and Chancellor of Armagh in 1706."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p40 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 He made his will on 10 July. His brother St George Ashe was successively Bishop of Cloyne, Clogher and Derry between 1695 and 1718.Library of Ireland
A friend of Jonathan Swift (who called him "Dilly"),"Clogher clergy and parishes: being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p61: Enniskille; R. H. Ritchie; 1929 he died in 1724."The epistolary correspondence of Sir Richard Steele" Nichols, J (Ed) p185: London, Longmans, 1809
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