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John Kirk D.D. (1760–1851) was an English Roman Catholic priest and antiquary, ==Life== He was son of William Kirk and his wife Mary Fielding, and was born at Ruckley, near Acton Burnell, Shropshire, on 13 April 1760. At ten years of age he was sent to Sedgley Park School, Staffordshire. He was admitted into the English College, Rome on 5 June 1773, a few months before the suppression of the Society of Jesus by Pope Clement XIV. He was the last student received at the college by the Jesuits. Kirk was ordained priest on 18 December 1784. Returning to England in August 1785, his first mission was at Aldenham Hall, Shropshire, in the family of Sir Richard Acton. In 1786 he became chaplain at Sedgley Park School, and as vice-president assisted the Rev. Thomas Southworth, whom he succeeded as president in 1793. He had previously removed to the small mission at Pipe-hall, near Lichfield, and he had charge of the congregation at Tamworth. In July 1797 he left Sedgley to become chaplain and private secretary to Charles Berington, vicar apostolic of the Midland district, and after the bishop's sudden death (8 June 1798) he stayed at the episcopal residence at Longbirch until the appointment of Dr. Gregory Stapleton to the vicariate in 1801. He then moved to Lichfield, where a chapel built by him was opened on 11 November 1803; afterwards enlarged, it was converted in 1834 into the little Norman church of St. Cross. He also erected chapels at Hopwas, near Tamworth, and in Tamworth itself. By diploma dated 9 November 1841, Pope Gregory XVI conferred on Kirk the degree of D.D. He died at Lichfield 21 December 1851, aged 91. There is a portrait of him, engraved by Deere, in the ‘Catholic Directory’ for 1853. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Kirk (antiquarian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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