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Adm. sizar at MAGDALENE, May 10, 1784. S. of Richard [jeweller], of [Old Street], London. B. there, 1766. School, St Paul's. Migrated to Corpus Christi, Aug. 25, 1784. ' Matric. Michs. 1784; Scholar, 1785; B.A. 1788; M.A. 1791. Fellow of Corpus, 1789. Made two tours of Europe as tutor to a young man, 1791-2; published an account of his adventures in Travels into different parts of Europe, inÂ… 1791 and 1792.... Ord. priest (London) June 21, 1795; C. of Henham, Essex. C. of Fulham, Middlesex, 1795-1813. R. of Paglesham, Essex, 1808-22. Minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea, 1815-22. Instrumental in founding the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1804; Secretary of the Society, 1804-22. Married, Sept. 1, 1794, Miss Charlotte Green, of Cambridge. Author, History of the Origin and the first ten years of the British and Foreign Bible Society, etc. Died Sept. 26, 1822, at Ramsgate. M.I. in Fulham cemetery. Brother of James (1791); father of Henry J. (1814) and John Orde (1824). (St Paul's Sch. Reg.; Gunning, Reminiscences, I. 88; Lamb, History of Corpus Christi College; D.N.B.)