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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Feb. 19, 1814. [3rd] s. of [the Rev.] Thomas [R. of Bower's Gifford, Essex] (for whom see D.N.B.). B. [Feb. 11, 1797], at Mile End, London. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1814; Bell Scholar, 1815; Craven Scholar, 1815; Scholar, 1816; Chancellor's Classical medal, 1818; B.A. 1818; M.A. 1821. Fellow, 1818; Junior Dean, 1827-8; Junior Bursar, 1830-2; Assistant Tutor, 1832-4; Hon. Fellow, 1867. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 4, 1820. Called to the Bar, 1825. Ord. deacon (Ely) 1827; priest (Bristol) 1828. V. of Over, Cambs., 1829-30. Required to resign his Assistant Tutorship in consequence of his 'Letter on the Admission of Dissenters to Academical Degrees'. R. of Kirby Underdale, Yorks., 1835-9. Bishop of St David's, 1840-74. Quickly learned to preach in Welsh and travelled all over his diocese. Author, Primitiae, or Essays and Poems on Various Subjects, by C. T. (when eleven years of age, preface by his father); History of Greece (in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia), 8 vols., 1835-47; Geschichte von Griechenland von L. Haymann. Bonn, 1839-40; various Sermons, Charges and Letters, etc. Died, July 27, 1875, at Bath; Buried in Westminster Abbey in the same grave with Grote. The Thirlwall prize was instituted in his memory, 1884. Brother of Thomas W. (1811). (List of Carthusians; Carthusian Worthies; Crockford; Foster, Index Eccles.; Inns of Court; Historical Register, 171, note 4; A. G. Hill; D.N.B.)