(1887-24 July 1961), clergyman. Born in Saint John, N.B. Parents: Samuel Irvine and his wife Mary Stephenson. George W. Irvine, who graduated from Dalhousie University, was for two years principal of a boys’ school in Trinidad, then studied theology at Pine Hill Theological College, Halifax. In 1914, he was ordained to the ministry. He did mission work in British Guiana, and was a minister at San Francisco and in Sask., and at Oshawa, Ont. Later, he was minister of St. Andrew’s United Church, Williamstown, from 1931 to 1959, being inducted 3 July 1931. (Glengarry News 10 July 1931) St. Andrew’s had a tradition of long pastorates, and Irvine was only its 6th minister in a sequence which went back to the Rev. John Bethune, the U E Loyalist. Irvine retired in 1959, and in retirement he and his wife lived in Cornwall. His death was at his home in Cornwall. (one child) A bronze plaque to his memory was dedicated at St. Andrew’s Church in 1962.

     See also entry for Mrs George W. Irvine.

Glengarry News 27 July 1961 * MacMillan, Kirk, 48 (portrait), 60, 65 * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 103 * Mrs G.W. Irvine, Mrs Ivan Clark, and Mrs W. J. Wilson, History of St. Andrew’s United Church at Williamstown (1987?)