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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Jan. 18, 1819. S. of Henry [apothecary, of London]. B. there. School, Christ's Hospital, London (Dr Trollope). ' Matric. Michs. 1819; Scholar, 1820; Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar, and Equal for Chancellor's Medal, 1823; B.A. 1823; M.A. 1826; Hon. LL.D. 1875. Fellow, 1824-43; Hon. Fellow, 1875-85. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) 1828; priest (Ely) Nov. 2, 1828; R. of Over, Cambs., 1830-4. C.-in-charge of Saxham, Norfolk, 1841-2. R. of Reepham with Kerdiston, 1842-63. The Bishop of Lincoln described him as ‘the Jerome of the Anglican Church.’ Edited various patristic works for Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. Member of Old Testament Revision Company, 1879-85. ‘His name is inseparably connected with Chrysostom and Origen.’ Autobiography in Preface to Origen. Deaf during most of his life. A direct descendant of Cromwell. Died unmarried Apr. 19, 1885, at Carlton Terrace, Heigham, Norwich. M.I. at Reepham Church and in Trinity College Chapel. (Foster, Index Eccles.; Boase, I. 1041; Cambridge Review, May 6, 1885; D.N.B.; F.M.G., III. 1121, which contains a pedigree; The Guardian, Apr. 29 and May 6, 1885.)