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Adm. pens. (age 18) at CHRIST'S, Jan. 28, 1758. S. of Richard. B. at Newcastle-on-Tyne. School, Harrow. ' Matric. Lent, 1758; Scholar, 1759; B.A, (11th Wrangler) 1762; M.A. 1765. Ord. deacon (Norwich) 1763; priest, May 13, 1764. C. of Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 1763; R. there, 1764-1801. R. of Blickling, 1767-1801. Married Alice Winn. Died Oct. 23, 1801; buried at Cley, Oct. 23, 1801, 'rector and patron of the Church'. Father of the next and of John W. (1791). (Peile, II. 264; Al. Oxon. erroneously associates an Oxford contemporary namesake with the cure of Cley.)