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Adm. sizar at QUEENS', Mar. 12, 1807. Of Yorkshire. ' Matric. Michs. 1807; B.A. (3rd Wrangler) 1812; M.A. 1815; D.D. 1840. Fellow and tutor, 1813-19. Ord. deacon (York) Aug. 1, 1813; C. of Croxton and Eltisley, Cambs., 1818-30. Head Master of the Free Grammar School, Leeds, 1830-54. Author, The Duty of a Christian State to support a National Church Establishment. Died June 14, 1854, aged 64. M.I. in Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, where he had officiated for the Ven. W. Sheepshanks, Archdeacon of Cornwall, 1830-45, but held no preferment. Father of the next and of George G. (1842), Charles R. (1845), Francis G. (1847) and Edward W. (1853). (Boase, I. 1815; G. Mag., 1854, II. 312.)