NARCISSUS, a learned Irish prelate, was born at Hannington in Wilshire in 1638. He was made principal of St Alban's hall, Oxford, in 1673, but removed to the provostship of Dublin college in 1678, promoted to the bishopric of Leighlin and Ferns in 1682, translated to the archbishopric of Cashel in 1690, to Dublin in 1694, and to Armagh in 1703. While he held the see of Dublin, he built a noble library for the use of the public, filled it with choice books, and settled a provision for two librarians. He repaired, at his own expense, several decayed churches, besides buying in and restoring many impropriations, and presenting a great number of oriental MSS. to the Bodleian library. He was a very learned and accomplished man; was well versed in sacred and profane literature, in mathematics, natural philosophy, the learned languages, especially the oriental, and in both the theory and practice of music. He published, 1. Institutiones logicae. 2. Manuductio ad logicam, written by Philip de Trieu; to which he added the Greek text of Aristotle and some tables and schemes. 3. An introductory essay on the doctrine of sounds, &c. He died in 1713.

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