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William Williamson (priest, born 1645)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2022
Entity authorityQ85815783 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Williamson (1645-1722) was an Irish Anglican priest in the late seventeenth century and the first three decades of the eighteenth.

Williamson was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College Dublin.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1645, 1722—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1645-01-01. For this dossier, William, Williamson and priest is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “William Williamson (priest, born 1645)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.