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Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Feb. 12, 1827, as Fountain John. [Eldest] s. of Fountain John Elwin [who had assumed the name of Woodyeare, 1812], of Crookhill, Rotherham, Yorks. (and Frances, dau. of John Woodyeare, of Crookhill). [B. there, May 11, 1809. School, Charterhouse.] ' Matric. Michs. 1827; B.A. 1831. Ord. deacon (Lincoln), Sept. 1832; priest (York), 1835. Of Crookhill. Domestic Chaplain to the Dowager Countess of Cavan, from 1851. Married (1) Aug. 8, 1843, Mary Jane, dau. of William Phillips, and had issue; (2) Emily Anne, dau. of the Rev. John D'Arcy Jervis Preston, of Askham Bryan. Died July 25, 1880, at Crookhill. (List of Carthusians; Peile, II. 425; Crockford; Clergy List; Changes of Name; Walford, County Families; The Guardian, July 28, 1880; Burke, L.G.)