James Saurin (6 February 1798 – 11 May 1879) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the nineteenth century.'Death of Archdeacon Saurin' Belfast News Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, May 13, 1879; Issue 19870 The Saurins were a Huguenot family who came to Ireland from Nimes in France in the 1720s.
The son of another James Saurin (Bishop of Dromore from 1819 to 1842)The Standard (London, England), 13 April 1842; Issue 5542. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II and Elizabeth Lyster, he was born in County Dublin 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 (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir Supplement p735: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was vicar of Seagoe parish and Archdeacon of Dromore from 1832 until his death in 1879."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p297 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
He married firstly Emily Simpson of Bath, Somerset, who died in 1838, and secondly Emma Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton, daughter of Reverend Rowland Egerton and Emma Croxton of Norley, Cheshire, and sister of Rowland Egerton-Warburton and Peter Egerton-Warburton. She died in 1891."The Saurin Centenary" Seagrove Parish Magazine December 1926 By his first marriage he had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy.The Saurin Centenary"
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