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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, May 15, 1775. Of Anglesey. [Eldest s. of , of Twyneyd, Carnarvons.] School, Beaumaris. ' Matric. Michs. 1775; Scholar, 1775; B.A. 1779; M.A. 1783; B.D. 1790. Fellow, 1784-91. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) June 27, 1779; priest (Chester, Litt. dim. from Chichester) Apr. 21, 1781. Officiated for three years at Battle, Sussex, under Dean Ferris, and at Town Malling, Kent. In 1790, through the influence of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, appointed Protestant Minister to the Belgic Provinces. Settled at Ostend, where he established an English Church. He was a man of very considerable intellectual powers and literary attainments, but the qualities of the heart predominated over those of the head. His liberality and charity, not measured by the scantiness of his fortune, were such as would have done credit to higher stations and larger means. Amongst other literary qualifications he was eminent for knowledge of the Gaelic or Welsh tongue, and has either printed, or left ready for the press, two volumes of Sermons in that language. Died Feb. 10, 1791, at Ostend. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 436.)