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Adm. Fell.-Com. at ST CATHARINE'S, Oct. 13, 1821. [S. of John, merchant, of Hoxton, Middlesex and of Barnard Castle, Yorks.] B. [1795], in London. ' Matric. Michs. 1821; B.A. 1826; M.A. 1829. Ord. deacon (Norwich) June 19, 1825; priest, June 18, 1826; C. of Gt Whelnetham, Suffolk, 1825-9. Assistant Minister of St Peter's, Sheffield, 1829-65. Married (1) Catherine, dau. of the Rev. John Dawson, minister of Nether Chapel; (2) Mary Harriet Fenton. Died Dec. 5, 1865, aged 70, at Askern, Yorks. (Crockford confuses him with John, B.A., Durham, 1838; P.C. of Muggleswick, Durham, 1851-5.) Father of John D. (1841) and Richard H. (1845) and perhaps of Francis A. (1861). (G. Mag., 1866, I. 153; Hunter, Sheffield, 265.)