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Adm. pens. at EMMANUEL, Sept. 15, 1770. [S. of the Rev. John (1724), of Wenhaston Hall, Suffolk. B. Mar. 29, 1751, at Kirstead, Norfolk.] ' Matric. Lent, 1771; B.A. 1775; M.A. from Clare, 1778. Fellow of Clare. Re-adm. at Emmanuel, Nov. 8, 1783; Dixie (Bye) Fellow, 1783. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) 1775; priest, 1777. Chancellor of Cloyne, 1796; resigned, 1802, on account of non-residence. A great authority on Roman roads in England; with his friend Dr Bennet traversed all the British trackways and Roman Roads. Contributed an essay on the Roman roads and stations in Leics. to Nichols's Hist. of Leics.; also contributed an article to Clutterbuck's Herts. on the primeval inhabitants of Herts. etc. F.S.A., 1788. Married (1) Jan. 4, 1796, Frances (died 1818), dau. of William Nind, barrister, and widow of Colonel Alexander Champion, of Bath; (2) Jan. 1819, Frances, dau. of Sir Robert Deane, Bart., and widow of Colonel John Hodges. Died s.p. Mar. 17, 1826, at Bath. (G. Mag., 1826, II. 373; Northants. Clergy; Burke, Biblio. Cornub., 314; D.N.B.)