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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Jan. 30, 1811. S. of William (1757). B. [1793] at Loose, Kent. School, Cheam, Surrey. ' Matric. Michs. 1811. Migrated to Trinity Hall, July 3, 1813; LL.B. 1819. Travelled on the Continent, and married before graduating. Ord. deacon (Canterbury) 1820; C. of Stowting and Postling, Kent, 1820. C. of High Halden, 1820-2. C. of Milstead, 1822. Member of the British Archaeological Association. Married, 1817, Mary Jane, dau. of John Cousens, Esq., of Westbourne, Sussex, and had issue. Author, History of the College of All Saints, Maidstone; The Coins of Cunobeline and of the Ancient Britons; Britannic Researches or New Facts and Rectifications of Ancient British History; Britannia Antiqua; Ancient Britain brought within the Limits of Authentic History; Celtic Inscriptions on Gaulist and British Coins, intended to supply Materials for the Early History of Great Britain, with a Glossary of Archaic Celtic Words and an Atlas of Coins. Settled, about 1851, at Bydews Place, near Maidstone, where he died Apr. 15, 1871. Brother of the next. (Boase, II. 1598; Cant. Act Book; D.N.B.)