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Adm. pens. (age 18) at CHRIST'S, Apr. 5, 1816. S. of Robert [auctioneer]. B. [Feb. 17, 1798], at Cowlinge, Suffolk. School, Norwich. ' Matric. Michs. 1816; Scholar, 1817; B.A. 1820. Ord. deacon (London) June 13, 1824; priest (Colonies) Oct. 18, 1824. While at Cambridge a frequent contributor of humorous verse to the Gentleman's Magazine and other periodicals. Originated the Brighton Magazine, 1822, which failed. R. of St Paul's, Demerara, West Indies, 1826-32. Returned to England, 1829, and on Aug. 8, delivered a clever speech at Mansion House Chapel, Camberwell, in which he vindicated the position of the West Indian slave-owners. C. of St Margaret's, Lothbury, c. 1832-4. C. of Dorking, Surrey, 1834-7. C. of West Hackney, Middlesex, in 1841. Resided at Dymchurch, Kent, 1843-7, and Chaplain of Elham Union, Dymchurch, 1844-7. Resided subsequently at Hoddesdon, Herts. Edited Life of Bishop Andrewes by his relation Henry Isaacson, the chronologer, and translated Bishop Jewel's ‘Apologia.’ Author, miscellaneous works, poems, and religious services, etc. A zealous member of the British Archaeological Association; contributed valuable information about primaeval antiquities in Kent, and to the genealogy of the family of Stuteville, from which he descended. Married, Nov. 1826, in Guiana, Maria Miller, youngest dau. of Bryan Bernard Killekelly, of the Barbados. Died Apr. 7, 1849, in London. (Peile, II. 382; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1849, II. 101-2.)