Anthony Thompson (priest)

Anthony Thompson was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the Eighteenth century.[1]

Thompson was born at Shap and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He was Dean of Raphoe[3] from 1744 until 1757;[4] and then Vicar of Hutton Bonville.

Notes

1. Naver
2. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius, (1927) p222
3. "The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution" Gould, E.H. p27: Chapel Hill, North Carolina; University of North Carolina Press; 2000 ISBN 0807825298
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p363 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878

Preceded by Ezekiel Hopkins

Dean of Raphoe 1671-1676

Succeeded by Capel Wiseman