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IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 742 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842) , English divine and dean of Westminster, was born at
Ashburton
 , Devonshire, on the 8th of September 1761, his father being a butcher in that town. For a short time he worked in a shoemaker's shop. Subsequently he proceeded to
Oxford
 , and in due course took holy orders. Through the
interest
  of the
earl
  of Liverpool he was in 1802 appointed a prebendary of Westminster Abbey, in 1815 he was promoted to the deanery of Westminster, and from 1816 to 1835 he was also
rector
  of
Islip
 , Oxfordshire. In 1825 he gave 4000 for the foundation at
Oxford
  of four " Ireland " scholarships of the value of 30 a year each, " for the promotion of classical learning and
taste
 ." He also gave 500 to Westminster school for the
establishment
  of prizes for Latin hexameters. He died at Westminster on the 2nd of September 1842, and was buried in the abbey.


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