James Saurin (6 February 1798 – 11 May 1879) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the nineteenth century.
[1] The Saurins were a Huguenot family who came to Ireland from Nimes in France in the 1720s.
The son of another James Saurin (Bishop of Dromore from 1819 to 1842)[2] and Elizabeth Lyster, he was born in County Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
[3] He was vicar of Seagoe parish and Archdeacon of Dromore from 1832 until his death in 1879.
[4] He married firstly Emily Simpson of Bath, Somerset, who died in 1838, and secondly Emma Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton, daughter of Reverend Rowland Egerton and Emma Croxton of Norley, Cheshire, and sister of Rowland Egerton-Warburton and Peter Egerton-Warburton.