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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 8, 1820. [2nd] s. of the Rev. John (1786), of Suffolk. [B. Oct. 15, 1801.] School, Norwich. ' Matric. Michs. 1821; Bell Scholar, 1822; B.A. (Senior Classic) 1825; 1st Chancellor's medal, 1825; M.A. 1828; B.D. 1835. Fellow and tutor. Lecturer (at that time designated ‘tutor’) at King's, 1829-39. Ord. deacon (Ely) May 29, 1825; priest, Nov. 5, 1826. R. of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 1839-86. Hon. Canon of Winchester, 1874-86. Married, May 13, 1840, Rebecca, dau. of H. Stokes, of Tamworth. Died Aug. 19, 1886, at Freshwater. Father of the next two. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 327; Eagle, XIV. 236; Foster, Index Eccles.; Clergy List; Crockford, 1886; The Guardian, Aug. 25, 1886, which says, ‘He was…elected also Tutor (sic) of King's, probably the first time in which the latter post had been held by one who was not an old Etonian’; G. Mag., 1840, II. 89; J. Saltmarsh.)