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{{Short description|Irish Priest and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral}}
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''' William Cradock  ''' (b [[Wolverhampton]] 28 June 1741 - d [[Edinburgh]] 1 May 1793) was an Irish [[Anglican]] [[priest]] in the 18th-century.<ref name="libraryireland">{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/robert-hunter.php|title=Robert Hunter, Portrait Painter - Irish Artists|website=libraryireland.com|accessdate=2018-11-10}}</ref>
Cradock was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]] and [[St John's College, Cambridge]].<ref>[[Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]], [[John Venn]]/[[John Archibald Venn]] [[Cambridge University Press]] [https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri02univuoft/page/164 > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1751-1900 Vol. ii. Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p408]</ref> He was [[Archdeacon of Kilmore]] from 1770 until 1775; and [[Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]] from then until his death.<ref>"A New History of Ireland" [[T. W. Moody]], [[F. X. Martin]], [[Francis John Byrne|F.J. Byrne]] and [[Art Cosgrove|Cosgrove, A]]: [[Oxford]], [[Oxford University Press|OUP]], 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}}</ref>
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