William Connell was an Anglican priest in the mid-eighteenth century.Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 0713642556

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin"Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p169 Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 and Prebendary of Mayne,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p 314 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 he was appointed Archdeacon of Ossory in 1758; and died on 27 March 1762."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p 306 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878

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