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Isaac Morgan Reeves

Irish Anglican priest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ75524596 ↗
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Isaac Morgan Reeves (1822-1905) was a long serving Irish Anglican priest.

Reeves educated at Trinity College, Dublin He was ordained deacon in 1844 and priest in 1845. After a curacy in Douglas, County Cork he held incumbencies at St John of Jerusalem, Hackney then Rosscarbery, County Cork.

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This entry incorporates text from “Isaac Morgan Reeves” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.