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Adm. pens. at SIDNEY, Mar. 29, 1830. Elder s. of Charles (for whom see D.N.B.), bookseller, of Salop. B. Dec. 31, 1805, at Castle House, Coleham, Salop. School, Gawcott, Bucks. (Mr Scott). ' Matric. Michs. 1830; B.A. 1834; Crosse scholar, 1834; Tyrwhitt scholar, 1835; M.A. 1837. Ord. deacon (London) May 25, 1834; priest, June 14, 1835; C. of St Mary's, Islington, 1834-9. P.C. of Slaithwaite, Yorks., 1839-67. Surrogate, dio. Ripon, 1853. Hon. Canon of Ripon, 1866-88. V. of Almondbury, 1867-88. Married, June 29, 1837, Mary, dau. of James Lacy, merchant, of London. Author, Annals of Almondbury; Poetical Recreation; Annals of the Church in Slaithwaite, Yorks., etc. Died Mar. 5, 1888. Father of the next, of James L. (1859), Reginald M. (1863) and Percival W. (1866). (C. A. Hulbert, Annals of Almondbury, 247; D.N.B.; Clergy List; Crockford; Foster, Index Eccles.; The Guardian, Mar. 14, 1888.)