John Geddes (Dean of Tuam)

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John Geddes was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries. [1]

Colvin was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1889. He served curacies in Belfast and Dublin. He was the incumbent at Tubbercurry from 1895 to 1902; Archdeacon of Achonry from 1896 to 1902; Residential Canon at Tuam Cathedral from 1902 to 1904; and Dean of Tuam from 1904 [2] to 1917.

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