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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, June 19, 1754. 3rd s. of Robert (1702), clerk, of Yorks. B. 1734, at South Kirkby, Yorks. School, Sedbergh. ' Matric. Michs. 1754; Scholar; B.A. 1758; M.A. 1761. Ord. deacon (Coventry and Lichfield) Dec. 24, 1758. C. of Felkirk, 1758. V. of South Kirkby, Yorks., 1759-1813. [His brother James (1741) was V. of South Kirkby, 1747-56.] Married Ann, dau. of Hugh Hammersley, attorney, of Doncaster, 1768 or 1769. Died 1813, aged 79, at South Kirkby. Father of George (1795) and James (1798). (Burke, L.G., 1862; Hunter, S. Yorks., II. 450.)