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Adm. pens. (age 18) at CAIUS, May 12, 1789. S. of Joshua, Esq. (1748) [M.P.], of Drinkstone, Suffolk. B. there. Bapt. Sept. 20, 1771. School, Ipswich (Mr King). ' Matric. Michs. 1789; Scholar, 1789-95; B.A. 1793; M.A. 1797. Fellow, 1795-1804. Chaplain, 1795. Dean, 1798. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Mar. 16, 1794; priest, May 28, 1797. Domestic Chaplain to Lord Reay. Master of Perse School, Cambridge, 1799-1802. Entered the Army, 1st Dragoons, 1804; afterwards Capt., 11th Foot. Drowned, Feb. 21, 1811, with 233 troops, in a transport, on the way to Cadiz, being run down by the frigate Franchise off Falmouth. Brother of the next. (Venn, II. 117.)