Neptune Blood (junior) explained

Neptune Blood (junior) (1655–1716) was Anglican priest in Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries .^[1]

The son of another ecclesiastical Neptune Blood^[2] he too was educated at Triwnity College, Dublin.^[3] He became Rector of Killilagh in 1680; and Treasurer of the Diocese of Kilfenora from 1688 to 1692;^[4] and Dean of Kilfenora from 1692 until his death.^[5]

Notes and References

1. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976
2. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p506 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
3. "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
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp510 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
5. Fryde, 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