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Adm. sizar at JESUS, May 20, 1760. Of Nottinghamshire. ' Matric. Michs. 1760; Rustat Scholar; LL.B. 1771; LL.D. 1788. Re-adm. as Fell.-Com. Feb. 5, 1771, and again, Nov. 14, 1786. Ord. deacon (Durham) Sept. 19, 1762; C. of Horton and Cramlington. R. (and patron) of Sheepy Magna (S. Mediety) 1768-1807; (N. Mediety) 1771-1807; resigned. R. of Brereton with Smethwick, Cheshire, July 10, 1807-19. Married Anne, dau. of Robert Cotton, Esq., of Worcester. Died Oct. 1819, aged 79, at Brereton. Father of Thomas C. (1792) and Walter W. (1794). To be distinguished from a contemporary author of these names in D.N.B. (Foster, Index Eccles.; Jesus Coll. Notes; Cant. Act Bk.; Nichols, IV. Pt ii, 930; Arthur Gray; Durham Ord.)