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Adm. sizar at QUEENS', Mar. 5, 1777. Of Norfolk. ' Matric. Lent, 1779; Exhibitioner and Scholar; B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1782; M.A. 1785; B.D. 1793. Fellow, 1783. Ord. deacon (Ely) Mar. 16, 1783; C. of Histon, Cambs., 1783. V. of Ickleton, 1789-91. V. of Witton, Norfolk, 1791-9. R. of St Botolph's, Cambridge, 1799-1834. R. of Sandon, Essex, 1834-46. Died 1846. A scandalous old reprobate (Charles Smythe, Simeon and Church Order, 135, note). Probably brother of Thomas (1770), William (1775) and John (1780). (Essex Instit.; Goodman, Hist. of St Botolph's, Cambridge, 111-12.)