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D’ASSIGNY, FIFIELD, son of Marius D’Assigny, and Rebecca Fifield; bapt. St. Pancras Old Church 3 Jul 1711 (IGI : Christian name not stated); adm. (aged 13) Jun 1724; in under school list 1725; apprenticed to William Vicaris, citizen and apothecary, 7 Jun 1726; a medical practitioner in Dublin; there is no evidence that he took the degree of M. D. attached to his name on the title-page of one of his books; author, Poems on Several Occasions, 1730, A Serious and Impartial Enquiry into the Cause of the Present Decay of Free-Masonry in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1744, and another book on freemasonry; buried St. Werburgh’s Churchyard, Dublin 10 Jan 1744/5. [Russell Barker and Stenning state that he was son of Rev. Samuel D’Assigny, Dublin, but it seems clear that his parents were Marius D’Assigny and Rebecca Fifield, who m. at St. James, Clerkenwell 18 Jul 1710] [father perhaps Chaplain, Royal Navy]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.