Patrick Sarsfield Casserly (1792 – 30 April 1847) was an Irish scholar, editor and educator.
He emigrated to the United States in 1824,[4] settling in New York City, where he became one of the first Roman Catholic educators.
[5] He was associate editor of the New York Weekly Register.
He translated the "Sublime and Beautiful" of Longinus, and "Of the Little Garden of Roses and Valley of Lillies" of Thomas à Kempis; edited Jacob's Greek Reader (1836), of which sixteen editions were published, and a textbook on Latin Prosody (1845), which is still extensively used in classical schools, and wrote and published a pamphlet entitled New England Critics and New York Editors, in reply to an article in the North American Review on the merits of certain Greek textbooks.
[2] Casserly died at his home in New York City after a brief illness.