George Alley (died 1912) was an Irish

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. Alley was a younger brother of

William Nassau Alley William Nassau Alley (1808 – June 1849) was an Irish Methodist. Alley was a native of Ballinasloe and is credited with much of the responsibility for the erection of the Methodist chapel of Galway, at what was later to be known as Victoria Pla ...

. He became a

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in 1852, and upon his death, it was said that "Seldom has the Church been favoured with a man so complete in character and adaptation for our work." His son, James Murdock Alley, was also a Methodist minister.

References

* ''Methodism in Galway'', Dudley Levistone Cooney,

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, 1978 Christian clergy from County Galway 1912 deaths 19th-century births Irish Methodists {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub