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Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, Mar. 25, 1761. [S. of the Rev. John (1733, sub Towsey), R. of Hessett, Suffolk. Bapt. Mar. 18, 1744-5. Schools, Winchester and St Paul's, London.] ' Matric. Michs. 1762; Scholar, 1763. Ord. deacon (London) Sept. 22, 1765; priest (Norwich) Feb. 19, 1769. Chaplain to the 37th Regt. of Foot in Minorca, 1769. R. of Stonham, Suffolk, 1769-97. Died, 1797, at Quebec. 'By his superior knowledge of husbandry he tended much to improve the state of agriculture in Canada'. Brother of Finch (1764); father of the above. (St Paul's Sch. Reg.; Winchester Scholars, 252; Venn, II. 126; G. Mag., 1797, II. 895; Foster, Norfolk and Suffolk Incumbents, states that James Toosey was R. of Stonham, 1769-97.)