Magee, Right Rev. William Connor

D.D. (Trinity College, Dublin, 1860), D.C.L., lord bishop of Peter borough, Church of England; b. at Cork, Dec. 17, 1821; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1842, B.D. 1854. He was first a curate of St. Thomas's, Dublin; then of St. Saviour's, Bath, 1848; then minister of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, 1850; of Quebec Chapel, London, 1860; rector of Enniskillen, Ireland, 1861; dean of Cork, 1864; lord bishop of Peter borough, 1868. He was Donellan lecturer, Trinity College, Dublin, 1865-66; dean of the Vice-Regal Chapel, Dublin, 1866-69; select preacher at Oxford, 1880-82. He is the author of Sermons at St. Saviour's Church, Bath, London, 1852, 2d ed. 1852; Sermons at the Octagon Chapel, Bath, 1853, 2d ed. 1853; The Voluntary System and the Established Church, 1861 (a lecture in defence of the Established Church, which attracted wide attention).