MAGEE, WILLIAM; Archbishop of Dublin; b. at Enniskillen (70 m. s.w, of Belfast), County Fermanagh, Mar. 18, 1766; d. at Stillorgan (5 m. s.e. of Dublin) Aug. 18, 1831. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1785), and became fellow in 1788, and senior fellow and professor of mathematics in 1800. Ordained deacon in 1790, he became dean of Cork in 1813, bishop of Raphoe in 1819, and archbishop of Dublin in 1822. He was a determined opponent of the Roman Catholics but still more of the Unitarians, against whom he wrote several pamphlets. He wrote among other works: Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice (London, 1801). His works were collected in two volumes (London, 1842).
Bibliography: Consult, besides the Memoir by A. H. Kennet', prefixed to his collected Works, ut sup., DNB, axxv. 313-315, where further literature is given.
MAGEE, WILLIAM CONNOR: Archbishop of York; b. at Cork Dec. 17, 1821; d. in London May 5, 1891. He was a grandson of William Magee (q.v.). He was educated at Trinity College, Dub lin (B.A., 1842; M.A. and B.D., 1854; D.D., 1860). He became curate of St. Thomas', Dublin, in 1844; of St. Saviour's, Bath, in 1848; minister of the Octa gon Chapel, Bath, in 1850; perpetual curate of Quebec Chapel in 1859; rector of Enniskillen in 1860; dean of Cork in 1864; dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin, in 1866; bishop of Peterborough in 1868; and archbishop of York in 1891. He was Donellan lecturer at Dublin in 1865-66. He was the author of: Sermons Delivered al St. Saviour's Church, Bath (Bath, 1852); Sermons at the Octagon Chapel, Bath (Bath, 1854); The Gospel and the Age (London, 1884); The Atonement (188?); Growth in Grace (1891); Christ the Light of all Scripture (1892); and Speeches and Addresses (1892).
Bibliography: J. C. MaeDonnell, The Life and Correspondence of William Connor Magee, 2 vols., London, 1898; idem, in DNB, xxxv. 313-318,
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