James Saurin (6 February 1798 – 11 May 1879) was an

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priest in Ireland in the nineteenth century. The Saurins were a Huguenot family who came to Ireland from Nimes in France in the 1720s. The son of another James Saurin ( Bishop of Dromore from 1819 to 1842) and Elizabeth Lyster, he was born in County Dublin and educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. He was vicar of

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and Archdeacon of Dromore from 1832 until his death in 1879. He married firstly Emily Simpson of

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, who died in 1838, and secondly Emma Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton, daughter of Reverend Rowland Egerton and Emma Croxton of

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, and sister of

Rowland Egerton-Warburton Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (14 September 1804 – 6 December 1891) was an English landowner and poet from the Egerton family in Cheshire. He was a devout Anglican in the high church tradition and a local benefactor. He paid for the re ...

and Peter Egerton-Warburton. She died in 1891. By his first marriage he had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy.The Saurin Centenary"

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1798 births 1879 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Dromore 19th-century Irish Anglican priests {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub