WILLIAM

See also:

• WILLIAM MAGEE (1766—1831)
• MAGEE, WILLIAM CONNOR (1821-1891)

MAGEE (1766—1831)  , archbishop of Dublin, was born at Enniskillen, Co . Fermanagh, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected fellow in 1788 . He was ordained in 1790 . Two sermons, preached in the college chapel in 1798 and 1799, form the basis of his Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice (18or), a polemic against Unitarian theology which was answered by Lant Carpenter . Magee was appointed professor of mathematics and senior fellow of Trinity in 1800, but in 1812 he resigned, and undertook the charge of the livings of Cappagh, Co . Tyrone, and Killeleagh, Co . Down . Next year he became dean of Cork . He was well known as a preacher and promoter of the Irish reformation, and in 1819 he was consecrated bishop of Raphoe . In 1822 the archbishop of Dublin was translated to Armagh, and Magee succeeded him at Dublin . Though in most respects a tolerant man, he steadily opposed the movement for Catholic Emancipation . He died on the 18th of August 1831 .

A memoir of his

life is included with the Works of the Most Reverend William Magee, D.D . (1842), by A . H . Kenney .