John Gast (1715 - 1788) was an Irish Anglican priest and historian.Rudiments of Greek History
The son of a French Huguenot,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. pp220-221 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1748-1778 Gast was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.Alumni Dublinenses Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U p319: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was the Archdeacon of Glendalough"Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 . from 1764 to 1778."A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 He also wrote extensively on Irish and Greek history."Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600-1800" Forrest, S.P; Williams, M (Ed) p107: Woodbridge, The Boydell Press 2010
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