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Adm. sizar at TRINITY, Dec. 3, 1807. [S. of Elias, Capt., 52nd Regt., Indian Army, killed at the siege of Bangalore (and Mary Fonteneau). A descendant of French exiled Protestants. B. Sept. 19, 1790, at Cuddalore. School, Carlisle Grammar.] ' Matric. Michs. 1808; Scholar, 1811; B.A. 1812; M.A. 1815; Seatonian prize, 1816; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1841. Fellow, 1813. Ord. deacon, 1813; C. of Haddington, 1814-17. Pastor of St Peter's, Edinburgh, 1817. Pastor of Haddington, 1829-33. Junior Minister of St Paul's, Edinburgh, 1833. Synod clerk of the diocese, 1836. Dean of Edinburgh and Fife, 1837-41. R. of St Paul's, Edinburgh, 1839. Bishop of Edinburgh, 1841-72. Primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, 1857-62; resigned through ill health. F.R.S.E. Married (1), 1818, Sarah Ingram, dau. of Capt. Samuel Wood, of Minlands, near Berwick-on-Tweed, and had 14 children; (2) 1859, Charlotte Madden. Author, Sermons. Died Apr. 2, 1872, at Stockbridge; buried in Edinburgh. Father of Elias C. (1833). (Carlisle Gr. Sch. Reg.; Boase, III. 916; D.N.B.)