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Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, Nov. 24, 1823. [Eldest s. of John, Esq., of Great Ormonde Street, London.] ' Matric. Lent, 1824; Scholar, 1825; B.A. 1828. Ord. deacon (Rochester) 1829; priest (London, Litt. dim. from Canterbury) Mar. 7, 1830; C. of St Michael's, Crooked Lane, London, 1829. C. of Preston-cum-Hedon, Yorks., 1834-5. C. of Finningley, Notts., 1835-6. C. of Boulton, Derbs., 1836-8; P.C. there, 1838-84. C. of Alvaston, 1840-6; P.C. there 1846-84. Book-collector and bibliographer. Married, 1829, Sophia, yst. child of the Rev. Theophilus Lane, D.C.L., Preb. of Hereford; authoress of An Englishwoman in Egypt. Disappears from Crockford, 1885. Father of Reginald S. (1883). (Cant. Act Book.)