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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Apr. 3, 1758. S. of Richard, M.D., of Middlesex (and his cousin, Jane, dau. of Charles Cholmondeley, Esq., of Vale Royal, Cheshire: descended from the ancient family of Meyrick of Bodorgan, Isle of Anglesey). B. Feb. 1, 1739-40. School, Canterbury. ' Matric. Michs. 1759; LL.B. 1765. Ord. deacon (Norwich, Litt. dim. from Bath and Wells) Dec. 19, 1762; priest (Lichfield and Coventry, Litt. dim. from Norwich), Dec. 18, 1763; C. Owsden, Suffolk, 1762. C. of Drinkstone, 1763-6. R. of Holsworthy, Devon, 1766-1819. Author of Poems in MSS. Died May 3, 1819, at Holsworthy. Father of William (1788). (St John's Coll. Adm., III. 651.)