Francis Higgins (priest)

Francis Higgins was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman.[1]

Dassy was born in Limerick and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was incorporated at Oxford in 1706.[3] A prebendary of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, he was Archdeacon of Cashel from 1725[4] until 1728.[5]

References
  1. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  2. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p397: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Hieron-Horridge
  4. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" p55 Cotton,H Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860
  5. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361 ISBN 0-521-56350-X


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