William Palliser (1644 – 1 January 1726

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) was an clergyman (Church of Ireland) and academic. He was professor of divinity at

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, then successively

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Bishop of Cloyne The Bishop of Cloyne is an episcopal title that takes its name after the small town of Cloyne in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is a separate title; but, in the Church of Ireland, it has been united with oth ...

and

Archbishop of Cashel The Archbishop of Cashel ( ga, Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. Following the Reformation, there had been parallel apostolic successions to the titl ...

Life

Palliser was of English birth, his grandfather, John Palliser, Esquire, being of Newby-super-Wiske,

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. He was baptised at

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on 28 July 1644, the son of John Palliser.Parish Register He was educated at Northallerton Grammar School but his father had died before he entered

in 1660. In 1668, he was elected a

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of Trinity, and in November 1669 he was ordained a

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of the

. On 28 January he was ordained to the

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hood in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. In October 1670 Palliser was elected as ''medicus'' of Trinity and in 1678 was appointed as professor of divinity. He gave the

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oration at the funeral of Archbishop James Margetson of Armagh in September 1678.PALLISER, WILLIAM (1646-1727)
at palliser.co.uk On 14 February 1692/93, a year after the

battle of the Boyne The Battle of the Boyne ( ga, Cath na Bóinne ) was a battle in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II of England and Ireland, VII of Scotland, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and J ...

, Palliser was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne. On 10 April 1694 he was nominated as Archbishop of Cashel, this appointment being confirmed by letters patent dated 26 June 1694. After his translation he held the see until his death on 1 January 1726/27. He was buried in January 1726/7, at St. Andrew's in Dublin. Palliser married, firstly, Elizabeth Hoey, daughter of William Hoey, M.P. for Naas, Ireland, and their only child was buried 17 September 1683, at St Peter & St Kevin, Dublin. His wife was buried shortly afterwards, on 21 or 26 September 1683, at St Werburgh's in Dublin, Ireland. His second wife, Mary Wheeler, was the widow of William Greatreakes, whom she had married in December, 1683. He died on 27 September 1686, at which time his widow was pregnant. He was the son of

Valentine Greatrakes Valentine Greatrakes (14 February 1628 – 28 November 1682), also known as "Greatorex" or "The Stroker", was an Irish faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Early life Greatrakes was born on ...

, the well-known faith healer. By his second wife, he had one son, William Palliser (who married Jane Pennefather and died childless in 1769) and one daughter, Jane, who married John Bury of

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.Sir Bernard Burke, ''The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales'' (1864)
p. 772
/ref> Their eldest son, William Bury, was High Sheriff of Co. Limerick and was father of

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. The second son, John, assumed the name and arms of Palliser and was the ancestor of the brothers, Sir

William Palliser Sir William Palliser CB MP (18 June 1830 – 4 February 1882) was an Irish-born politician and inventor, Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1880 until his death. Early life Born in Dublin on 18 June 1830, Palliser was the fourth of the eight ...

, M.P. and Captain

John Palliser John Palliser (29 January 1817 – 18 August 1887) was an Irish-born geographer and explorer. Following his service in the Waterford Militia and hunting excursions to the North American prairies, he led the British North American Explor ...

. Palliser was a substantial benefactor of his old college, Trinity.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palliser, William 1644 births 1727 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Anglican bishops of Cloyne Anglican archbishops of Cashel 17th-century Anglican archbishops 18th-century Anglican archbishops Members of the Irish House of Lords Regius Professors of Divinity (University of Dublin)