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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Oct. 27, 1823. [Youngest] s. of John [of Moor Hall, Harlow, Essex]. B. [Feb. 17, 1807], at Hackney, London. School, Harrow. ' Matric. Michs. 1824; Scholar, 1826; B.A. (Senior Wrangler and 1st Smith's prize) 1828; 7th Classic, 1828; M.A. 1831; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1847. Fellow, 1829-41; Tutor, 1832-40. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Mar. 15, 1828. Ord. deacon Gloucester, Litt. dim. from Ely) June 16, 1833; priest, Nov. 26, 1836. V. of St Paul's, Cambridge, 1842-7, having bought the advowson and erected the church. Ramsden Preacher, 1855. First Bishop of Melbourne, Australia, 1847-76; retired. A stout Evangelical. Much interested in the work of the Church Missionary Society and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Took a leading part in the foundation of Wycliffe Hall at Oxford and Ridley Hall at Cambridge. Married, Oct. 14, 1841, Frances, dau. of Samuel Cooper. Died Dec. 1, 1891, in London. Brother of George (1822) and Richard (1817). (Boase, II. 1470; Harrow Sch. Reg.; Inns of Court; F. W. Bullock; D.N.B.)