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Adm. at TRINITY, Apr. 15, 1779; a 'Ten-year man'. [S. of William (and Isabella). B. Dec. 3, 1747, at Priest Hutton, Lancaster. Schools, Warton and Sedbergh.] ' Matric. Easter, 1795; B.D. (Stat. Eliz.) 1795. Assistant Master at Sedbergh School, 1768-71. Ord. deacon (Westminster), 1771; priest (Chester), 1772. Head Master of Slaidburn Grammar School, Yorks., 1773-5. Head Master of Clitheroe Grammar School and V. of Clitheroe, Lancs., 1775-1807. R. of Claughton, 1807-13. 'A successful schoolmaster, a ready versifier, and a social favourite on account of his amiability, genial wit and copious fund of anecdote. His besetting weakness was punning'. Married, Apr. 29, 1775, Susannah Tetlow, of Skirden, widow of the Rev. Henry Nowell, R. of Bolton-by-Bowland (she was 44 and he 28). Author, Archaeological Dictionary and Classical Antiquities of Jews, Greeks and Romans; Lancashire Bouquet. Died Mar. 3, 1813, at Clitheroe. (D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1813, 1. 388; Gunning, II. 117-18.)