William Palliser

William Palliser (1644 – 1 January 1726 Old Style) was an clergyman (Church of Ireland) and academic. He was professor of divinity at Trinity College Dublin, then successively Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne and Archbishop of Cashel. Life Palliser was of English birth, his grandfather, John Palliser, Esquire, being of Newby-super-Wiske, Yorkshire. He was baptised at Kirby Wiske on 28 July 1644, the son of John Palliser. He was educated at Northallerton Grammar School but his father had died before he entered Trinity College Dublin in 1660. In 1668, he was elected a Fellow of Trinity, and in November 1669 he was ordained a deacon of the Church of Ireland. On 28 January he was ordained to the priesthood in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. In October 1670 Palliser was elected as medicus of Trinity and in 1678 was appointed as professor of divinity. He gave the Latin oration at the funeral of Archbishop James Margetson of Armagh in September 1678.