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Adm. pens. at JESUS, Apr. 4, 1807. [Younger] s. of Thomas [and Ann]. B. [June 26, 1787], at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. School, Bury St Edmunds. ' Matric. Michs. 1807; Scholar; B.A. (3rd Wrangler) 1811; M.A. 1814. Fellow, 1811-32. Bursar, 1815; Assistant Tutor, 1816; Steward. University Registrary, 1816-32. In 1813-14, Hustler, Edward Valentine Blomfield (brother of the Bishop of London), and Robert Mounsey Rolfe (afterwards Lord Cranworth), three young Cambridge men, travelled together through Sweden, Germany, Poland and Austria; all kept journals, of which Blomfield's and Hustler's still survive in their respective families. Edited Graduati, 1760-1823. Died unmarried Mar. 11, 1832, in his rooms in College. Buried in the College chapel. Bequeathed £400 to the College. Brother of James Devereux (1801). (An unnamed correspondent; Bury Gr. Sch. Reg.; G. Mag., 1832, I. 283; C.U. Hist. Reg.)