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Adm. pens. (age 19) at CHRIST'S, Nov. 8, 1791. [2nd] s. of Edward [gent., of St Peter's, Cornhill]. B. [Feb. 9, 1771], in London. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1792; Scholar, 1792; B.A. 1796; M.A. 1799. F.R.S., 1813; F.S.A. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Aug. 16, 1783. Ord. deacon (Ely), 1795; priest (London), Apr. 17, 1796. C. of Eynsford, Kent, 1797. Chaplain to the Duke of Clarence. R. of Inworth (and C. of Faulkbourne), Essex, 1802-61. President of Sion College, 1830-3. V. of St Bartholomew-the-Less, London, 1808-61. 'A man of singular simplicity of character and of vigorous intellect'. Married, May 4, 1801, Frances, dau. of J. D. Walford, of Sible Hedingham. Author, Reflections concerning the expediency of a Council of the Church of England and Church of Rome; Sermons, etc. Died Sept. 4, 1861, at St Bartholomew's vicarage. Father of Edward (1834). (Carthusian Worthies; Peile, II. 333; Boase, III. 1456; Crockford; D.N.B., which gives ord. deacon, 1798, priest, 1800; G. Mag., 1861, II. 453 and 479.)