John Watson (Dean of Ferns)

John Creighton, was a 17th-century Anglican Dean in Ireland.[1]

Watson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was the Vicar of Kilcloney from 1624 to 1628; Treasurer of Armagh from 1628 to 1634;[3]Rector of Mullaghbrack from 1628 until 1662; Dean of Ferns from 1662 until his death in 1665;[4] and Chancellor of Lismore from 1663.[5]

References

  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.402 ISBN 0-521-56350-X
  2. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p668: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p42: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p350: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p177: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878


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