William Magee (archbishop of Dublin)

Irish academic and bishop (1766–1831) For his grandson, the Archbishop of York, see William Connor Magee. For other people named William Magee, see William Magee (disambiguation).

The Most Reverend William Magee
Archbishop of Dublin Primate of Ireland
Bust of William Magee in the Trinity College library
Church	Church of Ireland
Diocese	Dublin and Glendalough
Appointed	24 June 1822
In office	1822–1831
Predecessor	Lord John Beresford
Successor	Richard Whately
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Raphoe (1819–1822)
Orders
Consecration	24 October 1819
Personal details
Born	(1766-03-18)18 March 1766 Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Kingdom of Ireland
Died	18 August 1831(1831-08-18) (aged 65) Stillorgan, County Dublin, Ireland
Buried	St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Nationality	Irish
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	John Magee & Jane Glasgow

William Magee (18 March 1766 – 18 August 1831) was an Irish academic and Church of Ireland clergyman. He taught at Trinity College Dublin, serving as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1800–1811), was Bishop of Raphoe (1819–1822) and then Archbishop of Dublin until his death.

Biography

He was born at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, the third son of farmer John Magee and Jane Glasgow. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin (BA 1786, MA 1789, BD 1797, DD 1801), where he had been a Scholar (1784), and was elected fellow in 1788. He was appointed Erasmus Smith Professor of Mathematics (and Senior Fellow) in 1800, and in 1813 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as a "gentleman of high distinction for mathematical & philosophical knowledge & Author of several works of importance". Thought not a research mathematician, he was a popular teacher at TCD and was well-liked by students.

He had been ordained into the Church of Ireland in 1790, and two of his sermons (preached in the college chapel in 1798 and 1799) formed the basis of his "Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice" (1801), a polemic against Unitarian theology, which was answered by Lant Carpenter. In 1812 he resigned from TCD to undertake the charge of the livings of Cappagh, County Tyrone, and Killyleagh, County Down.

In 1813 he became Dean of Cork. He was well known as a preacher and promoter of the Irish Second Reformation, and in 1819 he was consecrated Bishop of Raphoe. In 1822 the Archbishop of Dublin was translated to Armagh, and Magee succeeded him at Dublin. Though in most respects a tolerant man, he steadily opposed the movement for Catholic Emancipation. He gained notoriety for prohibiting the Catholic inhabitants of Glendalough from celebrating Mass "as they had theretofore done in their ancient and venerated cathedral of St. Kevin".

He died on 18 August 1831 in Stillorgan, near Dublin. He had 16 children, of whom, 3 sons and 9 daughters survived him. He was the grandfather of Archbishop William Connor Magee of York.

References

"Archive and Library catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
Bartholomew Lloyd at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Magee, William". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 302.
Casey, Christine (2005). Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. Yale: Yale University Press. p. 125. ISBN 0-300-10923-7.
"The Descendants of Archbishop [of Dublin] William Magee, 1766 to 1831". www.airgale.com.au. Retrieved 28 April 2021.

Works of the Most Reverend William Magee, D.D., 1842.

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Preceded byJohn George de la Poer Beresford	Archbishop of Dublin 1822–1831	Succeeded byRichard Whately

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Thomas Long Robert Grave Thomas Ram George Ley John Garrald Henry Hall Edward Worth Thomas Hacket Roger Boyle John Vesey Arthur Pomeroy Rowland Davies Robert Carleton William Meade George Chinnery John Erskine Thomas St Lawrence John Leslie James Saurin William Magee Robert Burrowes Thomas O'Brien Horatio Townsend Newman William Connor Magee Arthur Edwards Robert Gregg Achilles Daunt Samuel Madden Thomas Warren Mervyn Archdall Charles Bruce Richard Babington George Simms Henry McAdoo Ernest Daunt Frederick Johnston Maurice Carey Richard Clarke Michael Jackson Michael Burrows Nigel Dunne

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