Neptune Blood (junior)

Neptune Blood (junior) (1655–1716) was Anglican priest in Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries .[1]

The son of another ecclesiastical Neptune Blood[2] he too was educated at Triwnity College, Dublin.[3] He became Rector of Killilagh in 1680; and Treasurer of the Diocese of Kilfenora from 1688 to 1692;[4] and Dean of Kilfenora from 1692 until his death.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  2. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p506 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  3. ^ "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 p76: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp510 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  5. ^ 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 ISBN 0-521-56350-X