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Adm. pens. at SIDNEY, May 5, 1779. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. Francis (1748). R. of Chislehurst (and Althea, 5th dau. of John Hyde). B. Apr. 13, 1762, in Charterhouse Square, London. Schools, Scarning, Norfolk (Mr Robert Potter) and Charterhouse. ' Matric. Lent, 1780; B.A. (Senior Wrangler and Smith's prize) 1783; M.A. 1786; B.D. 1795. Fellow of Trinity Hall, 1785-93; tutor. Jacksonian Professor, 1792-1813. Ord. deacon (Peterb.), June 26, 1785; priest, June 29, 1787. Elected Master of Sidney, 1807, but the election was declared invalid by the Visitor on the ground that he had never been a Fellow of the College. R. of South Weald, Essex, 1794-1823. Preb. of St Paul's, 1802-23. R. of Cold Norton, Essex, 1813-23. Archdeacon of Essex, 1813-23. R. (sinecure) of East Dereham, Norfolk, 1815-23. Married, Aug. 13, 1793, Frances, dau. of Richard Hayles, of Cambridge. An original member of the Philosophical Society, 1784. Author, A Plan of a Course of Chemical Lectures; Charge to Clergy of Archdeaconry of Essex. Died Oct. 12, 1823. Brother of William H. (1782) and Charles H. (1789); father of the above. (D.N.B.; Carthusian Worthies; Foster, Index Eccles.; Clerical Guide; Burke, L.G.; Northants. Clergy; Gunning, I. 254-5; Gunther, Early Science in Cambridge.)