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Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Oct. 13, 1807. [Elder s. of Thomas, Esq., of Howroyde, near Halifax (and Lady Mary Gordon, dau. of George [Gordon], Earl of Aberdeen). B. 1791.] ' Matric. Michs. 1808; M.A. 1811. V. of Ormskirk, Lancs., 1818-45. Chaplain to H.M.S. Gloucester, 1826. Succeeded his father, at Howroyde, 1828. J.P. and D.L. Married, Nov. 6, 1832, Harriet, dau. of Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, Bart., of Rufford Hall, and had issue (a son, Joshua Thomas). Died Nov. 21, 1845, at Ormskirk. Grandfather of the next. (Burke, L.G.; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1846, I. 215.)