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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, July 9, 1773. S. of Edmund, of Hull. School, Manchester. ' Matric. Michs. 1774; Scholar, 1776; B.A. 1778; M.A. 1781. Fellow, 1780. V. of Welton with Melton, Yorks., 1793-1846. V. of Brading, Isle of Wight, 1790-1846. Lived at Welton. Probably Master of the Charterhouse, Hull. Married, Jan. 20, 1794, Josepha, dau. of the Rev. Joseph L'Oste, R. of Cockington and Alvingham, Lincs. Appealed to the Lord Chancellor, as Visitor, 1787, about irregularities in the election of Fellows of Trinity. Author, Considerations on Reform. Died July 25, 1846, aged 90, at Welton. Brother of Edmund (1777); father of Edmund (1814). (F. P. White; G. Mag., 1786, 1166 and 1787, 742 and 1017.)