Venn: Adm. pens. (age 16) at PETERHOUSE, May 3, 1713. S. of [Philip], colonel of the Guards, and grandson of Philip, protestant pastor and Huguenot refugee. School, Bishop's Stortford. Scholar, 1714; B.A. 1716-7; M.A. 1732; D.D. 1744. Ord. deacon (London) May 24, 1719; priest, Sept. 10, 1721. Chaplain to the Earl of Scarborough, 1719. Chaplain to Lord Chesterfield, 1728; with whom he went to Ireland, 1745. R. of Gedling, Notts., 1734-45. Bishop of Killaloe, 1745. Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, 1746-79. Died at Waterford, Sept. 11, 1779.