William Williamson (priest, born 1645)

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William Williamson (1645-1722) was an Irish Anglican priest in the late seventeenth century and the first three decades of the eighteenth. [1]

Williamson was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College Dublin. [2] He was Archdeacon of Glendalough from 1762 until his death [3]

Notes

  1. IGP
  2. 'Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)', Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (eds), p884: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935.
  3. Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 2 Cotton, H., p. 220: Dublin, Hodges, 1848.


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