James Duchal was born in Antrim and was educated at the University of Glasgow. He subsequently became a minister of a small congregation in Cambridge. Later he came to Antrim as a Presbyterian clergyman and then to Dublin to minister the dissenting congregation in Wood Street. He published many theological works and wrote hundreds of sermons. A selection of these was published in three volumes after his death

Born:	1697
Died:	4 May 1761