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Adm. sizar (age 18) at CAIUS, Oct. 4, 1758. S. of the Rev. John (1715), R. of Lavenham, Suffolk. B. there. Bapt. June 2, 1740. School, Christ's Hospital. ' Matric. Michs. 1758; Scholar, 1758; B.A. (5th Wrangler) 1763; M.A. 1766. Fellow, 1764-81; Dean, 1767-75. Usher at Bury St Edmunds School, 1763. Ord. deacon (Norwich) July 24, 1763; priest, Aug. 12, 1764. Assistant Master at the Perse School, Cambridge, 1768. R. of Bratton-Fleming, Devon, 1780-1801. R. of Arlington, 1801-18. Sometime Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln. Died Aug. 2, 1818, at Barnstaple. Father of the next. (Christ's Hospital Exhibitioners, which confuses date of death with that of his son; Venn, II. 75; G. Mag., 1818, II. 375.)