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William Pratt (1732–1770) was an Anglican priest in Ireland.

Pratt was born in Northamptonshire, the son of the Rev. David Pratt of Plumton, and was educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He was the Dean of Cloyne from 1769 until his death a year later.

In 1763, at Bandon, County Cork, Pratt preached a sermon to the Friendly Brothers of St Patrick, an Irish fraternity. on Benevolence and Friendship. It was published in Cork.

Notes

1. ^ Brady, William Maziere (1864). Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, taken from diocesan and parish registries, MSS. in the principal libraries and public offices of Oxford, Dublin, and London, etc. Longmans & Co. p. 204.
2. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Pratt, William (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p312 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
4. Thomas P. Power, Publishing and Sectarian Tension in South Munster in the 1760s, Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr Vol. 19 (2004), pp. 75–110, at p. 102. Published by: Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society. JSTOR 30071020

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