Lyall, William Rowe (1812-1833)

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VENN: Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, July 2, 1804. [3rd] s. of John [merchant and shipowner], of London [and of Findon, Sussex] (and Jane, dau. of Thomas Comyn). [B. Feb. 11, 1788, in London.] School, Fulham Park, London. Matric. Easter, 1806; Scholar, 1808; B.A. 1810; M.A. 1816. C. of Fawley, Hants., 1812-15. Chaplain at St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1817. Assistant Preacher at Lincoln's Inn. R. of Weeley, Essex, 1823-33. Archdeacon of Colchester, 1824-42. Warburton Lecturer, Lincoln's Inn, 1826. R. of Fairstead, Essex, 1827-33. R. of Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1833-42. Archdeacon of Maidstone and Preb. of Canterbury, 1842-5. R. of Great Chart, 1842-52. Dean of Canterbury, 1845-57. Married, 1817, Catharine, youngest dau. of Joseph Brandreth, M.D., of Liverpool. Edited the British Critic, 1816-17, and also the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (which he reorganised in 1820); assisted with the Theological Library. Died Feb. 17, 1857, at the Deanery, Canterbury; buried at Harbledown. Brother of Alfred (1813). (Boase, II. 539; Clergy List; Cant. Act Book; Foster, Index Eccles.; Clerical Guide; D.N.B.)

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