Joseph Story (priest)

Joseph Story was an 18th-century Anglican priest in Ireland.[1]

The son of another Joseph Story[2] Bishop of Kilmore[3] from 1742 to 1757[4] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[5] Story was ordained deacon on 28 August 1743 and priest on 4 September that year.

He was appointed

• Archdeacon of Kilmore in 1745[6]
• Vicar general of the Diocese of Kilmore in 1746
• Vicar of Killersherdiny in 1754
• and in 1560 Prebend of Whitechrch in Ferns Cathedral[7]

He died on 17 December 1767.[8]

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). pp. 398–399 Cambridge: CUP. pp. 360–361 ISBN 0-521-56350-X
2. thePeerage.com
3. NUI Galway
4. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A pp. 404–406: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
5. "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 p788: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
6. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p176Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
7. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p378 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
8. "Armagh clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh, from the earilest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, &c" Leslie, J.B. p226: Dundalk; William Tempest; 1911