William Cockburn (priest)

William Cockburn was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the eighteenth  century.

Cockburn was born in Kilkenny. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1739 and graduated B.A. in 1743; LL.B. in 1747; and LL.D in 1759. Cockburne was Prebendary of  Mayne in Kilkenny Cathedral from 1758 to 1762; and  Archdeacon of Ossory from 1762 to 1776.