Trolloping and Lolloping with Jonathan Swift (and John Echlin, Vicar-General of
These two On-line sources appear to be about the Echlins I am looking for, the father and grandfather of Alicia Echlin and my 7x and 8x great grandfathers.I am trying to find out how (or if) they are connected to the main Echlin family.My original information comes from records of the Mitchell Family.
http://irelandsotherpoetry.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!28AE47B7A265791B!151.entryhttp://irelandsotherpoetry.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!28AE47B7A265791B!151.entry
“RECENTLY I found an interesting article written in 1952 by … Robert Wyse Jackson (1908-1976), on the subject of some obscure verses composed by Jonathan Swift…. The music for this effusion, as we have noted, was written by John Echlin, one of the group of Dublin clergy which in 1725 Swift recommended to Lord Carteret as ‘distinguished for their learning and piety,’ and which included Ned Synge, later Bishop of Ferns, and Francis Corbett, Stella's executor and later himself Dean of St Patrick's. Echlin became Vicar-General of the Diocese of Tuam, and was Swift's right- hand man in deciding all questions relating to St Patrick's choir.”
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97s/letter32.htmlhttp://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97s/letter32.html
“A young fellow brought me a letter from Judge Coote,[19] with recommendation to be lieutenant of a man-of-war. He is the son of one Echlin,[20] who was minister of Belfast before Tisdall, and I have got some other new customers; but I shall trouble my friends as little as possible.”
[20] Probably a relative of Robert Echlin, Dean of Tuam, who was killed by some of his own servants in April 1712, at the age of seventy-three. His son John became Prebendary and Vicar-General of Tuam, and died in 1764, aged eighty-three. In August 1731 Bolingbroke sent Swift a letter by the hands of “Mr. Echlin,” who would, he said, tell Swift of the general state of things in England.
Christine
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Re: Trolloping and Lolloping with Jonathan Swift (and John Echlin, Vicar-General of
Christine Ditchburn 1/03/09