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Adm. pens. (age 19) at CAIUS, Feb. 19, 1808. Elder s. of Peter (the younger), attorney, of Halesworth, Suffolk [and Sarah Bitton]. B. there Nov. 2, 1789. Schools, Ipswich and Norwich. ' Matric. Michs. 1808. Migrated to Trinity Hall, Feb. 22, 1813; LL.B. 1814; LL.D. 1826. Ord. deacon (Norwich) June 27, 1813; priest (Ely) Sept. 28, 1817; C. of Hawkedon, Suffolk, 1813-17. C. of Littleport, Cambs., 1817. C. of Swaffham Prior, 1820. Married (1) Mar. 29, 1815, Catherine, dau. of Hugh Rowland, of Middle Scotland Yard, London; (2) Dec. 11, 1828, Anne Maria, 2nd dau. of Henry Fly, D.D., Sub-dean of St Paul's. Died Mar. 2, 1857, at Maddalena, Sardinia. Buried on a neighbouring Island. Made voluminous collections for a genealogical history of Suffolk, which are preserved in the Bury St Edmunds museum; also compiled a lengthy history of his own family. Father of Hugh W. (1837). (Venn, II. 150; Clergy List; Boase, II. 86; D.N.B.)