John Claudius Beresford was an Anglican priest in Ireland, most notably Dean of Elphin and Ardagh from 1944Representative Church Body Library, Dublin (D4/ D4A/ D4B/Records of the Dioceses of Elphin & Ardagh) p51 to 1954.
Beresford was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained deacon in 1897 and priest in 1898. After a curacy in Drumgoon he held incumbencies in Bailieborough and Kiltoraght.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 London, OUP, 1948 p99
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