Milo Sumner

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Milo Sumner, ( โ€“ 21 March 1686)

Anglican priest and academic in Ireland in the second half of the seventeenth century.[1]

Sumner was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin, where was a scholar in 1626.[2] He was a major in the Parliamentary Army in the Civil War.[3][4] He was appointed Fellow and Professor of Mathematics by the Parliamentary Commissioners in 1652, a position which became the Donegall Lectureship. He became Archdeacon of Clogher in 1661 and then Archdeacon of Kildare from 1668.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The Works of Jonathan Swift: Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D. D" Scott, W (Ed) p 44: Edinburgh Archibald, Constable & Co; 1814
  2. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593โ€“1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p 793: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
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  4. ^ Spearman, T. D. (1992). "400 years of mathematics: MYLES SYMNER and the new learning". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" p 91 Cotton, H. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848โ€“1878