Auteur

Walter Harris

Historien irlandais

Naissance
1686
Décès
1761, Dublin
Profession
Historien ou historienne et généalogiste

Vie et œuvre

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Walter Harris (1686–1761) was an Anglo-Irish historian and writer.

Life

Harris was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College, Dublin. He married Elizabeth Ware, great-granddaughter of Sir James Ware, the historian, in 1716 and became vicar-general to the Archbishop of Meath in 1753.

Harris received a government pension in 1748, which enabled him to work on histories and religious writings. In the 1740s he was involved with the Physico-Historical Society, a similar society to the Royal Dublin Society, along with Robert Jocelyn, the politician; Dr. Samuel Madden, the philanthropist; Thomas Prior, the founder of the Royal Dublin Society; John Rutty the physician and naturalist; John Lodge, author of Peerage of Ireland; and Charles Smith, the topographer and historian.

Harris died at his house in Clarendon St., Dublin, in 1761.

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Collection

Livres de Walter Harris

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