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dm. pens. at TRINITY, Sept. 2, 1799. [S. and h. of James (1778), R. of Kirk-Deighton, Yorks. B. Feb. 15, 1785, at Swinnow Hall, Wetherby. School, Beverley Grammar.] Migrated to Trinity Hall, May 5, 1800. ' Matric. Michs. 1803; Scholar, 1803; LL.B. 1806. Migrated to St Catharine's, 1808. Fellow of St Catharine's, 1808. Migrated back to Trinity Hall; LL.D. 1814. Fellow, Tutor and Vice-Master of Trinity Hall, 1809-21. Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1814-47. Ord. deacon (Ely) May 11, 1809; priest, Sept. 24, 1809. Succeeded his father as R. (and patron) of Kirk-Deighton, Yorks., 1840-62. Married, Aug. 4, 1836, Mary Rachel, dau. of William Desborough, of Hemingford Grey, Hunts. Editor, Bishop Halifax's Analysis of the Civil Law. Lived latterly at the rectory, Kirk-Deighton, where he died Feb. 16, 1876. Father of the next and Henry C. (1857); brother of Thomas C. (1811) and Richard J. (1805). (Foster, Index Eccles.; Crockford; Boase, I. 1134; D.N.B.)