page_title: Dean of Tuam
section_title: List of Deans (Church of Ireland)
hierarchical_section_title: Dean of Tuam / List of Deans (Church of Ireland)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Tuam C.I. Cathedral, Co. Galway, Ireland
context_page_description: The Dean of Tuam is a post held in the Diocese of Tuam, as head of the cathedral chapter from after the creation of the diocese at the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111.
context_section_description: The Dean of Tuam is based at the Cathedral Church of St Mary in Tuam in the Diocese of Tuam within the united bishopric of Tuam, Killala and Achonry of the Church of Ireland.
  1558–1573 - William O'Mullally (afterwards Archbishop of Tuam 1573)
  1573 - Edward Browne
  ?1604–1605 - Richard Boyle
  1609–1610 - Abel Walsh
  1625–?1637 - Thomas Peyton
  1638? - John King
  1661 - William Buchanan
  1669–1686 - James Wilson
  1686–1712 - Robert Echlin (murdered 1712)
  1712 - John Hinton and/or Thomas Butler.
  1716 - William White? (also Dean of Kilfenora 1716)
  1724 - Jonathan Bruce? (also Dean of Kilfenora 1724)
  1732 - 1735 Kenewicke Bray
   ?–1743 __ Hinton
  1743–1756 - Isaac Gervais
  1756–1759 - Robert Johnson (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne 1759)
  1759–1775 - Daniel le Tablere
  1775–1782 - Robert Clarke
  1782–1807 - Joshua Berkeley
  1807–1808 - James Mahon (afterwards Dean of Dromore 1808)
  1809–1810 - John William Keatinge (afterwards Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral 1810)
  1810–1813 - Richard Bourne (afterwards Chancellor of Armagh, 1813)
  1813–1849 - Thomas Carter
  1850–1867 - Hon Robert Plunket
  1867–1878 - Charles Henry Seymour
  1879–1898 - William Chambers Townsend
  1898–1904 - Andrew C. Tait
  1904–1917 - John Geddes
  1917–1923 – John Orr (afterwards Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry 1923)
  c1955– Joseph Jackson
  1966–1981 Walter Cyril Spence
  1981–1993 William James Grant
  1993–1996 Anthony Previté
  1997–1999 Ian Deighton Corbett
  2000–present Alistair Grimason
caption: Tuam Cathedral of St Mary's
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