[William Dool]. Irish educator and writer, born in Ireland on the 5th of April 1806. He engaged in the ministry from 1829 to 1842, when he became professor of church history and pastoral theology in Belfast Presbyterian College; in 1869 became president of the same institution; and in 1881 principal of the theological faculty of Ireland. He published Plea of Presbytery (1840); The Old Catholic Church Traced to 755 (1871); The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland from the Earliest Period to the Present Times (1875); and The Framework of the Church (1890); was also one of the authors of Presbyterianism Defended (1839).
