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Adm. sizar at EMMANUEL, Dec. 6, 1808. Of Devon. [2nd] s. of [John, merchant], of Chudleigh, Devon. [B. there, Mar. 13, 1786.] ' Matric. Lent, 1809. Migrated to Sidney, Dec. 11, 1809; B.A. 1813; M.A. 1817. Master of Chudleigh Grammar School, Devon. Ord. deacon (Exeter) 1813; priest, 1813. C. of St Andrew-the-Less, Cambridge, 1821-6. R. of Dymchurch and R. of Blackmanstone, Kent, 1835-60. A famous linguist. Married Mary Elizabeth, eldest dau. of the Rev. R. Relhan (1772), R. of Hemingby, Lincs. Author, Select Sermons; Sonnets (written in the Italian style); Biographical Sketch of M. de Lamartine; etc. Died in 1860. Father of Edwin W. R. (1834). (G. M Benton; Boase, II. 1668; Crockford.)