About Joseph Dalton
Lived 1817 – 1905 (aged 87–88). Joseph Dalton was a catholic priest.
Joseph Dalton (2 December 1817 – 4 January 1905) was an Irish Jesuit priest born in Waterford.
He was educated at the Jesuit colleges of Clongowes Wood College and St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg and entered the Society of Jesus in December 1836.
He led the first Irish Jesuit mission to Australia in 1866. He was responsible for the development of a number of churches and educational institutions. He oversaw the transfer of St Patrick's College, East Melbourne to the Jesuits and subsequently purchased land in 1872 upon which Xavier College, Kew, was built. It opened in 1878.
In Sydney, he founded Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview & St Aloysius' College. He was Rector of Riverview, New South Wales. After his retirement in 1883 he lived at Riverview, where he died on 5 January 1905.
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Who was Joseph Dalton?
Irish Roman Catholic priest
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Joseph Dalton was born on 2 December 1817.
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Joseph Dalton died in 1905.
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Joseph Dalton was a catholic priest.
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