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Adm. sizar at SIDNEY, Nov. 2, 1789. Only s. of Thomas, of Richmond, Yorks. B. June 11, 1771, at Richmond. School, Richmond (Mr Temple). ' Matric. Michs. 1790; B.A. 1794; M.A. 1797. Fellow, 1795-6. Master of Richmond School, Yorks., "for 36 years (1796-1833) of pre-eminent success the learned master of Richmond School". R. of Marske, Yorks., 1808-43. Canon-Residentiary and Preb. of St Paul's, 1833-43. V. of Edmonton, Middlesex, 1839-43. Married, Sept. 29, 1796, Margaret, dau. of Feilding Wallis, of Ireland. Author, Horatius Restitutus (an attempt to arrange the books of Horace in chronological order), etc. Died Sept. 2, 1843, at Clifton, Bristol; buried in St Paul's. Father of the next, of Thomas (1821), Francis B. (1827) and Feilding W. (1836). (Clergy List; Cansick, Epitaphs, 163; D.N.B., which gives his father's name as James, of Berwick.)