William Palliser (1644 – 1 January 1726 Old Style) was an clergyman (Church of Ireland) and academic. He was professor of divinity at Trinity College Dublin, then successively Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne and Archbishop of Cashel.

Life

Palliser was of English birth, his grandfather, John Palliser,

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, being of Newby-super-Wiske, Yorkshire. He was baptised at Kirby Wiske 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 Trinity College Dublin in 1660. In 1668, he was elected a Fellow of Trinity, and in November 1669 he was ordained a deacon of the Church of Ireland. On 28 January he was ordained to the priesthood in

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. In October 1670 Palliser was elected as ''medicus'' of Trinity and in 1678 was appointed as professor of divinity. He gave the Latin 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, Palliser was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne. On 10 April 1694 he was nominated as Archbishop of Cashel, this appointment being confirmed by

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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, 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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/ref> Their eldest son, William Bury, was High Sheriff of Co. Limerick and was father of Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville. The second son, John, assumed the name and arms of Palliser and was the ancestor of the brothers, Sir

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, M.P. and Captain John Palliser. 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)