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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Apr. 30, 1784. S. of [the Rev.] Hugh, of London. School, St Paul's. ' Matric. Michs. 1784; Scholar, 1787; B.A. 1789; M.A. 1792. Fellow, 1790. ‘A man of unsocial habits, very slovenly, and altogether unprepossessing in appearance.... When he took (sic) his B.D., he read a very long … thesis, which was entirely written on the covers of letters.’ Began a catalogue of the books in the University Library, which he never completed, ‘because, instead of reading only the title-pages, he read the books themselves.’ V. of Bottisham, Cambs., 1811-25. Died Apr. 9, 1825. Left a large benefaction to the poor. M.I. at Bottisham. (A. G. Hill; C. Sayle, Annals of Cambridge Univ. Libr., 105; Gunning, II. 56-9; Hailstone, History of Bottisham (C.A.S.); Winstanley, Unreformed Cambridge, 265.)