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Adm., as a "Ten-year man", at CHRIST'S, Jan. 29, 1818. Of Farley, near Salisbury. [S. of the Rev. William, R. of Port Eynon, Glam. B. 1793. School, Christ's Hospital. Joined the frigate Hotspur as a midshipman, 1810; left the service at the peace of 1815.] Ord. deacon (Salisbury) 1818; priest, 1818; C. of Downton, Wilts., 1818-19. C.-in-charge of Windsor, 1820-1. Warden of Farley Hospital and C. of West Grimstead and Plaitford, Wilts., 1822-32. V. of Brixworth, Northants., 1832-73. Married and had issue. Author, The Human Hand and Other Poems; A Treatise on the Origin of Pleasure and Delight in the Human Mind, especially as relating to the Faculty of Taste, and the Sublime and Beautiful; Introduction to Geology; Clerical Subscription, an appeal to Clergy and Laity; History of the Basilican Church of Brixworth; A Scientific and General Vindication of the Mosaic History of the Creation, etc. Formed a collection of cretaceous fossils, some of which are in the British Museum. Died July 15, 1873. Father of Justinian C. S. (1861). (Boase, III. 1220; Peile, II. 388; Crockford; Northants. Clergy; D.N.B.)