Neptune Blood (junior) (1655-1716) was

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest in Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries . The son of another ecclesiastical

Neptune Blood Neptune Blood was a 17th-century Anglican priest in Ireland. Blood was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained a priest on 12 March 1622. A Prebendary of Rath at Killaloe Cathedral, he was Archdeacon of Kilfenora from 1641 to 166 ...

he too 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 ...

. He became

Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...

of Killilagh in 1680; and Treasurer of the

Diocese of Kilfenora The Bishop of Kilfenora () was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the village of Kilfenora in County Clare in the Republic of Ireland. In both the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, the title is now united with ot ...

from 1688 to 1692; and

Dean of Kilfenora The Dean of Kilfenora was based at the Cathedral Church of St Fachnan (also known as St Fachtna) in Kilfenora, Clare in the small Diocese of Kilfenora within the Church of Ireland. It is probable that the Dean and Chapter were established aro ...

from 1692 until his death.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361

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Deans of Kilfenora 1655 births 1716 deaths 18th-century Irish Anglican priests 17th-century Irish Anglican priests Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub