Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Very Rev. Dr. James B. Kavanagh DD,(1880-1886) was an Irish priest, teacher and President of St. Patrick's College, Carlow from 1864 to December 1880. He was born in 1880 to Jeremiah Kavanagh of Killballyowne, Co. Wicklow and Mary Kavanagh, he was educated, firstly, at St Peter's College, Wexford, then at Maynooth College. He was appointed Professor of Rhetoric at Carlow College in 1850 left briefly in 1853 returning in 1854 as Dean of the Ecclesiastical College and Professor of Moral Philosophy. In 1856 Professor of Natural Philosophy(lecturing in Chemistry and Chemical Physics) in 1857.