Milo Sumner, ( – 21 March 1686)

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also known as Miles Symner, Miles Symmes or Myles Symner, was an

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priest and academic in

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in the second half of the seventeenth century. Sumner was 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 ...

, where was a scholar in 1626. He was a major in the Parliamentary Army in the

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. He was appointed Fellow and Professor of Mathematics by the Parliamentary Commissioners in 1652, a position which became the Donegall Lectureship. He became Archdeacon of Clogher in 1661 and then

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from 1668."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" p 91 Cotton,H.

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, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878

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