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Adm. pens. (age 19) at ST JOHN'S, July 5, 1762. S. of Charles, attorney-at-law, of Suffolk. B. at Bury St Edmunds. [Descended from an ancient Norfolk family.] School, private [not Grammar School boy, that I know of; has relations there (Bury Reg.).] ' Matric. Michs. 1762; B.A. 1766; M.A. 1769. Ord. deacon (Exeter, Litt. dim. from Norwich) Mar. 15, 1767; priest (Norwich) Dec. 18, 1768; C. of Lopham, Norfolk, 1768. Preacher at St James's Church, Bury St Edmunds, 1778-92. R. of Thwaite St George, Suffolk, 1775-92. R. of Wickhampton, Norfolk, 1785-92. Married, Mar. 21, 1772, Sophia Ann Day, of Bury St Edmunds. Died Apr. 27, 1792, at Thwaite, aged 50; buried there in the chancel. Father of the next and Samuel (1794). (Bury Gr. Sch. Lists; St John's Coll. Adm., III. 682; G. Mag., 1792, ii, 480; D.N.B.)