Francis Higgins was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman."A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976
Dassy was born in Limerick and educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p397: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was incorporated at Oxford in 1706.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Hieron-Horridge A prebendary of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, he was Archdeacon of Cashel from 1725"Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" p55 Cotton, H Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 until 1728.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360–361
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