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Joseph Palmer
Church Church of Ireland
Province Dublin
Diocese Cashel and Ossory
See Dean of Cashel
Enthroned 1787
Reign ended 1829
Predecessor John Jebb
Successor Samuel Adams
Orders
Ordination 5 May 1776
Rank Dean
Personal details
Born (1749-06-13)13 June 1749
Great Torrington, Devon, England
Died 2 May 1829(1829-05-02) (aged 79)
Spouse
Elizabeth Edwards
(m. 1786)
Alma mater Exeter College, Oxford

Joseph Palmer (1749–1829) was an Irish Anglican priest in the late 18th century and the first decades of the 19th.

Matriculating at Exeter College, Oxford in 1766, aged 16, he graduated B.A. in 1770, and M.A. in 1772. He was ordained as deacon on 25 September 1774 by Bishop Frederick Keppel to the office of curate at Langtree on a stipend of £40 per year. He was ordained as priest of St James Parish Church by Bishop Jonathan Shipley on 5 May 1776.

He was Chancellor of Ferns from 1779 to 1802. In 1787 he became Dean of Cashel and in 1802 Precentor of Waterford, holding both posts until his death on 2 May 1829.

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