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Adm. pens. (age 19) at ST JOHN'S, May 15, 1755. S. of John, gent. [and Mary Holt], of Middlesex. B. in London. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. from Hertford College, Oxford, June 30, 1758; B.C.L. (Oxford) 1764. Ord. deacon (Bristol) Feb. 16, 1761; priest (London) Dec. 21, 1761. R. of Little Wigborough, Essex, 1764-1812. R. of Shelley, 1769-1812. R. of Castle Camps, Cambs., 1772-1812. Married, Jan. 1767, Helen, dau. of the Rev. John White, R. of Stockton, Worcs., and had issue; she was the pretty Nellie White, mentioned in Miss Anna Seward's letters, and the belle of Lichfield. Died May 19, 1812, at Castle Camps. M.I. there. (Al. Oxon.; St John's Coll. Adm., III. 637; G. Mag., 1812, II. 81.)