John Vesey was an 18th-century Anglican priest in Ireland."A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976
The son of John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam, and his second wife Anne Muschamp, he was 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 p76: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 and Christ Church, Oxford.Vachell-Vyner Pages 1533-1549 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 Vesey was Rector of Ballinrobe.NUI Galway In 1706 he was appointed Prebendary of Kilmoylan at Tuam Cathedral."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p37 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 Vesey was Archdeacon of Kilfenora from 1714Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361 to 1743."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp511/12 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
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