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Adm. pens. (age 18) at SIDNEY, May 26, 1752. S. of the Rev. Palmer (1709), of Colchester. B. there [Oct. 28, 1733]. School, Colchester (his father). ' Matric. Michs. 1752; B.A. 1756; M.A. 1759. Ord. deacon (London) June 13, 1756; priest, Dec. 18, 1757. R. of Alresford, Essex, 1773-1816. R. of St Mary Magdalene, Colchester (succeeding his father), 1773-1816, and Master of King James's Hospital. R. of Alpheton, Suffolk, 1806-16. Married, Dec. 1777, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Longcroft, of Fratton, Hants., and widow of James Powell. Died Oct. 15, 1816; buried in All Saints', Colchester. M.I. Brother of Humphrey (1740) and William (1740); father of John R. (1796). (G. Mag., 1816, II. 468; Misc. Gen. et Her., 4th S., IV. 193.)