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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, May 31, 1775. 5th s. of Joseph, biscuit-maker [and Mary, dau. of Timothy Tennant]. B. Mar. 1757, at Wapping, Middlesex. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1775; B.A. 1779; M.A. 1782. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) June 27, 1779; priest (Lichfield) June 10, 1781; R. of St Martin's, Birmingham, 1781-1829. R. of Solihull, Warws., 1789-1829. Chaplain to John Charles Villiers, Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, in 1789. Married (1) Dorothy, dau. of the Rev. John Wilde, of Bell Broughton, Worcs.; (2) Sarah, dau. of Thomas Wilkinson (or Wilkieson), a merchant, of Amsterdam, in 1797. Died Jan. 12, 1829, aged 71. Father of George (1826).