Venn: Adm. sizar (age 20) at ST JOHN'S, June 25, 1711. S. of Robert, clerk. B. 1691, at Kirkham, Lancs. School, Sedbergh. B.A. 1714-5. Ord. deacon (York) Feb. 1715-6; priest, May 20, 1722. P.C. of Hambleton, Lancs., 1725; of Goosnargh, 1735-40. Married Elizabeth Lomax of Kirkham.