Wettenhall Sneyd

Wettenhall Sneyd (1676-1745) was an 18th-century Anglican priest in Ireland.[1]

The cousin of Edward Wettenhall,[2] Bishop of Cork and Ross from 1679 to 1699,[3] Sneyd was born in Burslem and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[4] In 1710 he became the Vicar of Vicar of Killersherdiny and the Vicar general of the Diocese of Kilmore.[5] He was Archdeacon of Kilmore from 1740 until his death.[6]

References
  1. "Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2" J.; Burke, J.B. p1261: London; Henry Colburn; 1847
  2. Monchique
  3. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 385–386. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  4. "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 p768: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  5. "Brief sketches of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook" Blacker, B.H. p368: Dublin; George Herbert; 1874
  6. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p176Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878


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