Joseph Palmer (priest)

Very Reverend

Joseph Palmer
ChurchChurch of Ireland
ProvinceDublin
DioceseCashel and Ossory
SeeDean of Cashel
Installed1787
Term ended1829
PredecessorJohn Jebb
SuccessorSamuel Adams
Orders
Ordination5 May 1776
by Bishop Jonathan Shipley
RankDean
Personal details
Born(1749-06-13)13 June 1749[1]
Great Torrington, Devon, England
Died2 May 1829(1829-05-02) (aged 79)
Spouse
Elizabeth Edwards
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(m. 1786)​
Alma materExeter College, Oxford

Joseph Palmer (1749–1829)[2] was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 18th century and the first decades of the 19th.

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]

  1. ^ a b c "Person: Palmer, Joseph (1774 - 1776)". Clergy of the Church of England database. 112733. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Palmer, Joseph" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H.
  5. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p63 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  6. ^ "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
  7. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p144 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Very Rev. Joseph Palmer, Dean of Cashel". Red1st Genealogical web-site.