Joseph Palmer (priest)
Joseph Palmer (1749–1829)[2] was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 18th century and the first decades of the 19th.
Very Reverend Joseph Palmer | |
|---|---|
| Church | Church of Ireland |
| Province | Dublin |
| Diocese | Cashel and Ossory |
| See | Dean of Cashel |
| Installed | 1787 |
| Term ended | 1829 |
| Predecessor | John Jebb |
| Successor | Samuel Adams |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 5 May 1776 by Bishop Jonathan Shipley |
| Rank | Dean |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 June 1749[1] Great Torrington, Devon, England |
| Died | 2 May 1829 (aged 79) |
| Spouse |
Elizabeth Edwards (m. 1786) |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
Matriculating at Exeter College, Oxford in 1766, aged 16, he graduated B.A. in 1770, and M.A. in 1772.[3] He was ordained as deacon on 25 September 1774 by Bishop Frederick Keppel to the office of curate at Langtree on a stipend of £40 per year. He was ordained as priest of St James Parish Church by Bishop Jonathan Shipley on 5 May 1776.[1]
He was Chancellor of Ferns from 1779 to 1802.[4] In 1787 [5] he became Dean of Cashel[6] and in 1802 Precentor of Waterford,[7] holding both posts[8] until his death on 2 May 1829.[9]
References
- "Person: Palmer, Joseph (1774 - 1776)". Clergy of the Church of England database. 112733. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- "Will of The Very Reverend Joseph Palmer, Dean of Cashel of Saint Sidwells Exeter , Devon". 18 June 1829. PROB 11/1757/218 – via The National Archives.
- Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H.
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p63 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p144 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- "Very Rev. Joseph Palmer, Dean of Cashel". Red1st Genealogical web-site.
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