Editing James Ussher (section)

==Education==
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Ussher was born in [[Dublin]] to a well-to-do family. His maternal grandfather, [[James Stanihurst]], had been speaker of the [[Irish House of Commons|Irish parliament]]. Ussher's father, Arland Ussher, was a clerk in chancery who married Stanihurst's daughter, Margaret (by his first wife Anne Fitzsimon), who was reportedly a Roman Catholic.<ref>{{Cite DNB|volume=54 |wstitle=Stanyhurst, Richard}}</ref>

Ussher's younger and only surviving brother, [[Ambrose Ussher|Ambrose]], became a distinguished scholar of [[Arabic]] and [[Hebrew languages|Hebrew]]. According to his chaplain and biographer, [[Nicholas Bernard]], the elder brother was taught to read by two blind, spinster aunts.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/measuringeternit00gors|title=Measuring Eternity|author= Martin Gorst |date=2001|page=[https://archive.org/details/measuringeternit00gors/page/13/mode/1up 14]|isbn=0767908279|publisher=Broadway Books}}</ref> A gifted [[Polyglot (person)|polyglot]], he entered Dublin Free School and then the newly founded (1591) [[Trinity College Dublin]] on 9 January 1594, at the age of thirteen (not an unusual age at the time). He had received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree by 1598 and was a fellow and [[Master of Arts|MA]] by 1600 (though Bernard claims he did not gain his MA till 1601). In May 1602, he was ordained in the Trinity College Chapel as a deacon in the [[Protestant]], [[state religion|established]], [[Church of Ireland]] (and possibly priest on the same day, while Martin Gorst says that he became a priest on 20 December 1601<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/measuringeternit00gors|title=Measuring Eternity|author= Martin Gorst |date=2001|page=[https://archive.org/details/measuringeternit00gors/page/15/mode/1up 16]|isbn=0767908279|publisher=Broadway Books}}</ref>) by his uncle [[Henry Ussher]], the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

Ussher went on to become [[Chancellor (ecclesiastical)|Chancellor]] of [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]] in 1605 and [[Prebendary|Prebend]] of [[Finglas]]. He became Professor of Theological Controversies at Trinity College and a [[Bachelor of Divinity]] in 1607, [[Doctor of Divinity]] in 1612, and then [[Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin|Vice-Chancellor]] in 1615 and vice-provost in 1616. In 1613, he married Phoebe, daughter of a previous [[Provost (education)|Vice-Provost]], Luke Challoner, and published his first work. In 1615, he was closely involved with the drawing up of the first [[confession of faith]] of the Church of Ireland, the [[Irish Articles of Religion]].