Michael Kearney (priest) explained

The Ven. Michael Kearney, D.D. (1734, Dublin – 1814, Dublin) was an Irish priest and academic.^[1]

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin,^[2] he was the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History there from 1769 to 1776 and Regius Professor of Law from 1776 to 1778. He was the incumbent at Tullyaughnish from 1778; and then Archdeacon of Raphoe from his collation on 28 February 1798^[3] until his death on 11 January 1814.

His younger brother was a Fellow of the Royal Society;^[4] Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1799 to 1806;^[5] and Bishop of Ossory^[6] from 1806 to 1813.^[7]

References

1. William Reynell, ‘Kearney, Michael (1734–1814)’, rev. R. B. McDowell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 April 2016
2. "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) pp453/4: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. pp365 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
4. Web site: Library and Archive Catalogue. The Royal Society. 5 November 2010.
5. http://www.tcd.ie/provost/history/former-provosts/j_kearney.php John Kearney
6. Book: Cotton, Henry . The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland . Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae . 2, The Province of Leinster . 1848 . Hodges and Smith . Dublin . 290.
7. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 404.