A Compendium of Irish Biography/Ussher, James

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615110A Compendium of Irish Biography — Ussher, JamesAlfred Webb

Ussher, James, author, a descendant of the Archbishop, was born in the County of Dublin, about 1 720. He was successively a farmer, a linen-draper, a Catholic clergyman, and a school teacher (for a time in partnership with John Walker, author of the Pronouncing Dictionary). He wrote a Discourse on Taste (2 vols., 1772), and some minor works, and died at Kensington in 1772. [1] [2]

Authorities
  1. Authors, Dictionary of British and American: S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1869–'71.
  2. Biographical Dictionary: John Gorton. 3 vols. London, 1833.