John Lewis (Dean of Ossory)

The Very Rev. John Lewis (1717–1783) was Dean of Ossory[1] from 1755 to 1783.[2]

He was educated at Westminster School[3] and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1734 and graduated B.A. in 1738.[4] He died on 28 June 1783.

Notes
  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  2. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984), Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II, New History of Ireland: Volume XI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton,H. pp295/6 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  4. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Lewis, John (7)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.


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