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Maurice
Crosbie
DD
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Brother of
William Crosbie, Ann Crosbie, Jane Crosbie, John Crosbie, Elizabeth Crosbie and Dorothea (Crosbie) Pigott
Husband of
Pyne Cavendish
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Eleanor (Gun) Crosbie
— married
3 Mar 1762 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth (Crosbie) Moore, William Crosbie DD, Pyne (Crosbie) Trevor and Dora (Crosbie) Harvey
Died
at about age 76
in Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
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Biography
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| Church of Ireland Clergy |
Maurice Crosbie was born c 1733. He was educated by Mr Conolly and entered Trinity College Dublin on 27 November 1749, aged 16. Graduated BA (1754), MA (1758), BD (1764) and a DD (1769).[1]
He was collated Prebendary of Kllmainmore (Tuam) on 10 April 1762. (ff.) He resigned in 1771. He was appointed Dean of Limerick by patent dated 3 Oct 1771, instituted 11th November and installed on 16th December. He was at the same time Rector of Castle-island, in the diocese of Ardfert. [Ch. B.] .[2]
He married firstly, Elizabeth Gun, daughter of William Gun, on 22 March 1762. and secondly Pyne Cavendish, daughter of Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Bt. and Anne Pyne, on 13 August 1768. He had one daughter by his first marriage and three daughters and a son by the second. He son William Crosbie (1771-1832) was the fourth and last Baron Brandon as well as being Rector of Castle Island, Kerry, but died with no surviving issue.
He is the 6xgreat grandfather of the Princesses of York, Beatrix and Eugenia.
Maurice died at Wicklow on 18th June 1809.[3]
Sources
- ↑ FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
- ↑ Cotton, Henry. Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland Volume I, Page 397. (Dublin : Hodges and Smith, 1851)
- ↑ Limerick Chronicle, 24th June 1809
- Cokayne, G.E.; Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.. 13 volumes in 14. 1910-1959. Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000.
- The Peerage
- Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
- Vol 1 - The Province of Munster, Pg 397
- Vol 4 - The Province of Connaught, Pg 33
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