Henry Scardeville (1654–1703) was an

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in the second half of the 17th century and the very start of the eighteenth. Scardeville was born in

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attended school at Repton, and educated at

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. Chaplain to the Williamite Duke Schomnerg. He was appointed rector of Cloghran in 1681, and prebend of

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, Co. Dublin in 1682. As Vicar of Swords, he was responsible in 1702 for adding the cross to the top of the Round Tower in Swords. He was

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and

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until his death. His first wife Mary Molesworth, daughter of Guy Molesworth of London, who died along with their child in childbirth., he married Margaret Culliford, from Derbyshire, with whom he had a son Frederick Maynhard, and a daughter Elizabeth. Dr. Scardeville died on February 3rd, 1703 and was buried in the Chancel of Swords Church, in 1811 his tombstone and mural monument, were moved to the new St. Columbas Church, Swords, where they remain today.Swords A Visual History
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Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Cloyne 18th-century Irish Anglican priests 17th-century Irish Anglican priests 1654 births 1703 deaths Archdeacons of Ross, Ireland {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub