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Adm. pens. (age 17) at CAIUS, June 25, 1760. S. of William, of Ballingdon, Essex. B. there. Schools, Lavenham (Mr Coulter), Plaistow (Mr Dodd) and Melford (Mr Perry). Scholar, 1760-4; matric. Michs. 1761; B.A. 1764; M.A. 1767. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 21, 1765; priest, June 14, 1767; R. of Flempton with Hargrave and Hengrave, Suffolk, 1768-1817; patron of Flempton. One of those who signed the Feathers Tavern petition against subscrition. Left a sum of money to increase the salary of the parish clerk and for the education of poor children in Flempton parish. Author, contributions to Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture. Died Oct. 31, 1817, at Bury. M.I. at Flempton. Father of the next. (Venn II. 78.)