Joseph Palmer (priest)

Joseph Palmer[1] was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 18th century and the first decades of the 19th.

A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford,[2] he was Chancellor of Ferns from 1779 to 1802.[3] In 1787 [4] he became Dean of Cashel[5] and in 1802 Precentor of Waterford,[6] holding both posts[7] until his death on 2 May 1829.[8]

References

1. National Archives
2. Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees; by University of Oxford; Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905 page 1061
3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H.
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p63 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
5. "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
6. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p144 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
7. 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.
8. Genealogical web-site