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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 31, 1787. Of Cumberland. [S. of John, of Whitehaven. B. June 12, 1769.] ' Matric. Michs. 1788; Scholar, 1788; B.A. (Senior Wrangler and 1st Smith's prize) 1792; M.A. 1795; B.D. 1802. Fellow, 1794-1840; Senior Bursar, 1813-14. President, 1815-19. Sir Thomas Adam's Professor of Arabic, 1804-19. Ord. deacon (Ely) May 26, 1792; priest, May 22, 1796; C. of Brinkley, Cambs., 1793. Travelled extensively, and wrote diaries of his journeys which are in the College library. Mentioned by Dorothy Wordsworth who travelled in a coach with him from Leicester to Cambridge in 1810. Died Apr. 9, 1840, in his College rooms, and buried in the (old) ante-chapel. Left £1000 to the University to increase the stipend of the Professor of Arabic, and some Turkish MSS.; to the College he bequeathed £1000 and a number of Oriental books. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 409; G. Mag., 1840, II. 102; E. de Selincourt, Dorothy Wordsworth, 261.)