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About Help Contact login Rev David Gallery SJ Title: Rev First Name: David Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Gallery Order: SJ Date of Birth: 09-May-1849 Place of Birth: Lurgan, Co Armagh Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 20-Aug-1934 Place of Death: Dublin Country of Death: Ireland Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Gallery, David Teacher; born Lurgan, Co Armagh, Ireland, 9 May 1849; died Dublin, 20 August 1934, aged 85. David Gallery was educated at the local seminary for four years and at Maynooth for three. He entered the Society at Milltown Park, 7 September 1870, and later taught at Tullamore and the Crescent, 1873-79. He main subjects were mathematics, zoology, botany, French and bookkeeping. Then he moved to Milltown Park for philosophy, 1880-82, and theology at St Beuno's, 1882-86. After ordination he taught at Clongowes and at Galway where he was prefect of studies, 1888-89. He moved to Tullamore, where he was socius to the master of novices and completed his tertianship. After that he was prefect of studies at Mungret, 1890-91, and rector at Galway during his time there, 1891-96. He seems to have had a breakdown at this time and lived outside Jesuits houses, in the Lyons province and in Cairo and Alexandria until 1901. Then he was sent to Australia and Riverview, 1901-02, to St Patrick's College, 1902-05, and finally to the parish of Norwood, 1905-07. Gallery then returned to Ireland for a few years, first at Tullamore, then Milltown and Rathfarnham until 1914 when he returned to Clongowes. He was teaching at St Aloysius' College, Malta, during the First World War, and returned to Ireland and Rathfarnham in poor health in 1916 where he remained until his death. Up to 1931 he did what work he could, and was certainly never idle, but from that year to his death he was a confirmed invalid. His patience in suffering was most edifying. He was kindness itself, approachable by all, especially by the poor, and above all by children. He was calm, quiet, unflinching and steady in his life, excitement of any kind quite foreign to him. He was a gifted man, a poet of no mean order, and a writer of very clear, simple prose. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Gallery, David

Teacher; born Lurgan, Co Armagh, Ireland, 9 May 1849; died Dublin, 20 August 1934, aged 85.

David Gallery was educated at the local seminary for four years and at Maynooth for three. He entered the Society at Milltown Park, 7 September 1870, and later taught at Tullamore and the Crescent, 1873-79. He main subjects were mathematics, zoology, botany, French and bookkeeping.

Then he moved to Milltown Park for philosophy, 1880-82, and theology at St Beuno's, 1882-86. After ordination he taught at Clongowes and at Galway where he was prefect of studies, 1888-89. He moved to Tullamore, where he was socius to the master of novices and completed his tertianship. After that he was prefect of studies at Mungret, 1890-91, and rector at Galway during his time there, 1891-96.

He seems to have had a breakdown at this time and lived outside Jesuits houses, in the Lyons province and in Cairo and Alexandria until 1901. Then he was sent to Australia and Riverview, 1901-02, to St Patrick's College, 1902-05, and finally to the parish of Norwood, 1905-07.

Gallery then returned to Ireland for a few years, first at Tullamore, then Milltown and Rathfarnham until 1914 when he returned to Clongowes. He was teaching at St Aloysius' College, Malta, during the First World War, and returned to Ireland and Rathfarnham in poor health in 1916 where he remained until his death. Up to 1931 he did what work he could, and was certainly never idle, but from that year to his death he was a confirmed invalid. His patience in suffering was most edifying.

He was kindness itself, approachable by all, especially by the poor, and above all by children. He was calm, quiet, unflinching and steady in his life, excitement of any kind quite foreign to him. He was a gifted man, a poet of no mean order, and a writer of very clear, simple prose.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev David Gallery SJ

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