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See also:MAGEE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1766—1831) , See also:archbishop of See also:Dublin, was See also:born at See also:Enniskillen, Co. See also:Fermanagh, and educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, where he was elected See also:fellow in 1788. He was ordained in 1790. Two sermons, preached in the college See also:chapel in 1798 and 1799, See also:form the basis of his Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrines of See also:Atonement and See also:Sacrifice (18or), a polemic against Unitarian See also:theology which was answered by Lant See also:Carpenter. Magee was appointed See also:professor of See also:mathematics and See also:senior fellow of Trinity in 1800, but in 1812 he resigned, and undertook the See also:charge of the livings of Cappagh, Co. See also:Tyrone, and Killeleagh, Co. Down. Next See also:year he became See also:dean of See also:Cork. He was well known as a preacher and See also:promoter of the Irish See also:reformation, and in 1819 he was consecrated See also:bishop of Raphoe. In 1822 the archbishop of Dublin was translated to See also:Armagh, and Magee succeeded him at Dublin. Though in most respects a tolerant See also:man, he steadily opposed the See also:movement for See also:Catholic Emancipation. He died on the 18th of See also:August 1831.
A memoir of his See also:life is included with the See also:Works of the Most See also:Reverend William Magee, D.D. (1842), by A. H. See also:Kenney.
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