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Adm. sizar (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 16, 1823. S. of – [Edward], deceased, late of Oswestry, Salop [and Charlotte Stephens]. B. [Apr. 16, 1806], in [Piccadilly], London. [School, Ealing.] ' Matric. Michs. 1824. Migrated (age 21) to Magdalene, Apr. 28, 1827; B.A. (31st Wrangler) 1828; M.A. 1832. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, 1858. Fellow and Dean of Magdalene. Ord. deacon (Ely) June 14, 1829; priest (Lincoln) 1831; C. of Conington, Cambs., 1829. Resided in Paris, 1834-46. Inspector of Schools for Wales, 1849-64; retired. Archaeologist. Chief founder of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, Sept. 1847. F.S.A., 1841. First editor of Archaeologia Cambrensis. Interested in the reform of University education, starting a College in Manchester, 1836, which did not succeed, but prepared the way for the establishment of Owens College, in 1851. Married, 1834, Frances, 2nd dau. of Robert Plowden Weston, of Shropshire. Resided at Brighton and later in Kensington, London. Published, with T. Wright, Memorials of Cambridge. Died Nov. 16, 1870, at Kensington. (Boase, Coll. Cornub., I. 278; Boase, II. 127, which erroneously gives ‘7th Wrangler’; D.N.B., which gives ‘died Nov. 10’; Al. Oxon.; Crockford; Eminent Welshmen.)