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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Apr. 10, 1778. [Only s. of George (the painter, for whom see D.N.B.). B. 1758. School, Manchester Grammar.] ' Matric. Lent, 1779; Scholar, 1778; B.A. 1782; M.A. 1785; B.D. 1792; Fellow, 1785-1806. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) June 23, 1782; priest (Norwich), Apr. 6, 1788. R. of Southery, Norfolk, 1788-1806 (but did not reside). Chaplain of Horningsea, Cambs., 1798-9. Presented some of his father's drawings to St John's College. Married, Nov. 21, 1806, Jane Kennel, of Kendal, and had issue. Built in 1800, with his father, Whitestock Hall, Colton, near Newton-in-Cartmel, Lancashire, where he resided until his death, Feb. 6, 1832. Author, Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney. Father of the next. (D.N.B., which states that he was R. of Thurgarton and of Cockley Cley, Norfolk, from 1804; Adms. to St John's Coll., IV. 455; Manchester Sch. Reg., II. 28.)