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Adm. sizar at ST CATHARINE'S, Apr. 3, 1822. [Younger] s. of Cornwall, Esq. [of Clapton, naval surgeon]. [B. 1805. A godson of Lord Nelson.] ' Matric. Michs. 1822; B.A. 1826. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 13, 1827; priest, Dec. 21, 1828. Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Munster, 1827. P.C. of St Mary's, Great Ilford, Essex, 1837-66. Secretary of the Oriental translation fund, of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1837. Author, History of the Temple of Jerusalem (translated from the Arabic); Biographical Notices of the Persian Poets; Brief Discourses on the Gospels and Epistles; The Kitab-i-Yamini, etc. Died Apr. 19, 1866, at Great Ilford. (Boase, III. 123; Crockford; D.N.B.)