Franc Sadleir 'formerly'' Francis(13 June 1775 – 11 May 1851) was an Irish academic who served as the 28th

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from 1837 to 1851.

Early life and education

Sadleir was the youngest son of Thomas Sadleir, barrister, by his first wife, Rebecca, eldest daughter of William Woodward of Clough Prior,

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. He was educated at

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, where he was elected a Scholar in 1794 and a fellow in 1805. He graduated B.A. 1795, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1813.

Academic career

In 1816, 1817, and 1823 he was Donnellan lecturer at his college; from 1825 to 1835

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, and from 1833 to 1838 Regius Professor of Greek. In politics, he was a Whig and an advocate of Catholic emancipation. With the Duke of Leinster, the archbishop of Dublin, and others, he was one of the first commissioners to administer funds for the education of the poor in Ireland in 1831. In 1833, he was appointed, with the Primate, the Lord Chancellor, and other dignitaries, a commissioner to alter and amend the laws relating to the temporalities of the

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, but resigned the trust in 1837. On 22 Dec. of that year, during the viceroyalty of the Marquis of Normanby, he was made Provost of Trinity College, a post he held for fourteen years. He is said to have declined a bishopric on more than one occasion. He upheld the principle of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland. One of the treasures of the Library at Trinity College was given to it by Sadleir in 1837. This is the 14th-century manuscript called the "Dublin Apocalypse".Fox, Peter, Treasures of the Library: Trinity College Dublin, RIA, 1986.

Later and personal life

Sadleir died at Castle Knock Glebe,

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, on 14 December 1851 and was buried in the vaults of Trinity College on 18 December. He married Letitia, daughter of Joseph Grave of Ballycommon, King's County, by whom he left five children. There is a portrait of Sadleir in the

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Publications

Sadleir published ''Sermons and Lectures preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin'', 1821–4, 3 vols.; and ''National Schools for Ireland defended in a Letter to Dr. Thorpe'', 1835.

References

* ; Attribution

External links

Dublin Apocalypse, T.C.D.
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