Cutts Harman (1706 - 1784)

Born 1706 in Dublin, Ireland

Ancestors

Died 1784 at about age 78 in Newcastle, County Longford, Ireland

Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

Cutts was born in 1706. He was the son of Wentworth Harman and Frances Sheppard. He was baptised on 20 July 1706.

He was educated by Mr Jackson of Westmeath and entered Trinity College Dublin on 15 December 1720, aged 14. B.A. 1725, M.A. 1728. ^[1]

He was presented as Dean of Waterford on 7 March 1759. He gave to the cathedral a very fine organ.

Cutts married Bridget Gore, daughter of George Gore of Tenelick, co. Longford, and sister of John Gore, Lord Annaly, on 22 July 1751.

They had no children.

He died in 1784; and was buried at Newcastle.

Death Notice - Dublin Hibernian Journal 6 February 1784

died at his seat in the co of Longford, the Rev Dean Harman

He bequeathed his estates to his nephew, Lawrence Parsons-Harman, of Newcastle, M.P. co. Longford, who assumed the additional surname of Harman, on succeeding to his uncle's estates. Lawrence was the son of his sister Anne, who had married Sir Lawrence Parsons.

Sources

1. ↑ 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.

• A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke and Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Publication date 1912, Family: King-Harman of Newcastle
• 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 141