Edward Cresset (c. 1698 – 1755) was an 18th-century Anglican churchman."Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum: Being an Account of the Valuations of All the Ecclesiastical Benefices in the Several Dioceses in England and Wales, as They Now Stand Chargeable With, Or Lately Were Discharged From, the Payment of First-fruits and Tenths : to which are Added the Names of the Patrons, and Dedications of the Churches : to the Whole are Subjoin'd Proper Directions and Precedents Relating to Presentation, Institution, Induction, Dispensations" Ecton, J. p170: London; T.Osborne; 1763
Cresset was born in Glympton, Oxfordshire"Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B p34: Fermanagh, R.H. Ritchie 1929 and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He was successively Dean of Clogher;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p88 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 Dean of Hereford;Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae and Bishop of Llandaff.”Chronological Antiquities: Or, the Antiquities and Chronology of the Most Ancient Kingdoms from the Creation of the World of the Space of Five Thousand Years” - London, Noon 1752
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