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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Mar. 14, 1796. S. of Joseph, of Gainsborough, Lincs. [B. 1780.] School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1797; Browne medallist (Latin Ode), 1797; Scholar, 1799; B.A. 1801; M.A. 1804. Fellow, 1803. Ord. deacon and priest (Chester) Dec. 31, 1815. V. of Weedon-Bec, Northants., 1823-59. Married, 1807, at Adlington, , eldest dau. of Samuel Manerty, British Resident at Bussorah. Edited the Critical Review, and compiled a complimentary notice of Byron's Hours of Idleness, 1807: Byron wrote: I have been praised to the skies in The Critical Review (Moore, Life of Byron). Author, translations of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Died Nov. 17, 1859, aged 79, at Weedon-Bec. (E. H. Vigers; Boase, I. 1592; G. Mag., 1860, I. 189; D.N.B.; Northants. Clergy, which gives V. of Weedon-Bec, 1823-63.)