Milo Sumner, ( – 21 March 1686) D.D. also known as Miles Symner, Miles Symmes or Myles Symner, was an

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priest and academic in

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in the second half of the seventeenth century. Sumner was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

, where he was a scholar in 1626. He was a major in the Parliamentary Army in the

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. He was appointed Fellow and Professor of Mathematics by the Parliamentary Commissioners in 1652, a position which became the Donegall Lectureship. He became

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in 1661 and then

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from 1668."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" p 91 Cotton, H.

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, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878

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17th-century Irish Anglican priests Archdeacons of Kildare 1686 deaths Archdeacons of Clogher Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Scholars of Trinity College Dublin Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Academics of Trinity College Dublin 17th-century Irish mathematicians Place of birth missing {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub