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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 9, 1813. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. S[amuel] (1788). [B. Nov. 27, 1796, at Cromwell, Notts.] School, Rugby. ' Matric. Michs. 1813; Scholar, 1813; B.A. 1817; M.A. 1820. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 19, 1819; priest, June 17, 1821; C. (to his uncle, the Rev. Gilbert Beresford) at St Andrew's, Holborn. Married, Aug. 31, 1832, Sarah, dau. of William Exton, of Cadeby, Leics., and had issue. Emigrated to Tasmania, where he made a large fortune as a sheep-farmer. Died Oct. 26, 1860, at Exton, Tasmania. Brother of Francis (1820). (Rugby Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm. IV. 376 (sub his father); G. Mag., 1861, I. 346; Phillimore, Notts. Pedigrees, 321-2; Clergy List.)