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Adm. pens. (age 19) at ST JOHN'S, Jan. 28, 1794. S. of John (and Martha). B. [Jan. 10, 1775], at St Magnus Street, London. [School, Camberwell.] ' Matric. Michs. 1797; Scholar, 1795; B.A. 1798; M.A. 1814. In 1810 tried farming at Harefield, Middlesex, but was unsuccessful. His father lost his money about 1812, which caused the son to change his profession from the law to the Church. Adm. at the Inner Temple, May 16, 1794. Called to the Bar, May 4, 1804. Ord. deacon (Ely, litt. dim. from London) Mar. 27, 1814; priest (London) Sept. 25, 1814; C. of Rickmansworth, Herts. C. of Harefield, Middlesex, 1814-18. Librarian of the Inner Temple, 1818-56. Reader at the Temple Church, 1820-56. Granted a sum of £300 in consideration of his long services, 1845, and resigned on a pension, 1851. In 1834 Lord Chancellor Brougham presented him to the living of St Bride's, Fleet Street, but went out of office immediately afterwards. The living not being then actually vacant the vicarage of St Bride's was conferred on another. Published a pamphlet entitled Church Patronage, relating to this extraordinary case, 1836. Married, Jan. 10, 1802, Mary Emery, of Gt. Charlotte Street, London. Allowed by the Master of the Temple to occupy his house, 1832-45. Author, Sermons of the Evidences, the doctrines and the duties of Christianity; Sermons preached at the Temple Church, etc. Latterly of 48, Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill. Died Jan. 12, 1863, in London, from the effects of a fall 3 days before. Father of John H. (1822). (Inns of Court; Clergy List; Crockford; G. Mag., 1863, I. 253; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 458; Boase, III. 330.)