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Authorised form of nameMagee; William (1766 - 1831); Archbishop of Dublin
Dates1766 - 1831
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEnniskillen, County Fermanagh; Ulster
Date of birth18 March 1766
Place of deathStillorgan, near Dublin, Ireland
Date of death18 August 1831
OccupationClergyman, Church of Ireland
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1784)
Career:
Ordained deacon (1790); Professor of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin (1800); Dean of Cork (1813); Bishop of Raphoe (1819); Archbishop of Dublin (1822-1831); died of paralysis
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/11/1813
Relationships3rd son of John Magee, farmer; 16 children, of whom 3 sons and 9 daughters survived him
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1830-1831 No 7 p 84
CodeNA3271
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1813/08Magee, William, Archbishop of Dublin: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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