Samuel Adams (priest)

Samuel Adams
Dean of Cashel
ChurchChurch of Ireland
Installed1829
Term ended1856
PredecessorJoseph Palmer
SuccessorOgle William Moore
Personal details
Born(1786-12-23)23 December 1786
Died5 December 1856(1856-12-05) (aged 69)
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin

Samuel Adams (23 December 1786 – 8 December 1856)[1] was an Irish Anglican priest in the 19th century.[2]

A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin,[3] he became a Prebendary of Elphin in 1813.[4] He was Dean of Cashel[5] from 1829[6] until his death.[7]

Coat of arms of Samuel Adams
Notes
Confirmed 6 September 1854 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms.[8]
Crest
On a mount Vert a cross crosslet fitchee Or charged with a bleeding heart Gules.
Escutcheon
Gules a heart between three cross crosslets fitchee Or.
Motto
In Cruce Salus
  1. ^ Ireland (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Times (London, England), Thursday, 11 December 1856; pg. 10; Issue 22548
  2. ^ "Report of the trial of the case of the Very Rev. Samuel Adams, dean of Cashel, versus Philip Dundas, a major in the 7th Hussars, for seduction : before the chief baron and a special jury, in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, on the 26th and 27th days of May, 1831". National Library of Ireland. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p4: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p149 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. p38 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. ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. F". National Library of Ireland. p. 39. Retrieved 27 June 2022.