Brabazon William Disney"Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland : appendix to thirtieth report (Diocese of Dublin)" Dublin; HMSO: 1899 was an Irish Dean in the middle of the 19th century."A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976
Disney was born in County Louth on 13 July 1797 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.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 p231: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He held incumbencies at Siddan, Stackallan and Inishmot before becoming Archdeacon of Raphoe in 1835,"Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p366: Cotton, H; Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 a post he held for ten years until he became Dean of Emly."Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 1 p96: Cotton, H; Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 In his spare time he compiled an eight-volume collection of his sermons."Occasional and Practical Sermons" (Dublin 1847) British Library web site accessed 19:18 GMT Monday 28 January 2013 He was Dean of Armagh from 1851 untilArmagh clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes and churches Leslie, J.B:Dundalk : William Tempest, 1911 his death on 20 December 1874.
There is a memorial to his wife Anna on the wall of the north transept of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh."Funary Monuments & Memorials in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh" Curl, J.S. p103: Whitstable; Historical Publications; 2013
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