Patrick Delany (1686 – 6 May 1768), was an Irish clergyman and described by ''A Compendium of Irish Biography'' as "an eloquent preacher, a man of wit and learning."

Biography

He was educated at Trinity College Dublin (which he entered as a sizar), was elected a Scholar, and eventually rose to be Senior Fellow."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/ Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 222: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935. He became well known as a preacher at Saint Werburgh's, attracting the attention of Lord Carteret, then

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. Exchanging the Fellowship for the office of

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of Christ Church, Dublin, impoverished him in the late 1720s, but in 1731 he married Mrs Margaret Tenison, widow of Richard Tenison: "a rich Irish widow, and again found himself in a position to gratify his hospitable disposition and indulge his literary tastes."

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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)

Works by Patrick Delaney
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