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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, June 11, 1754. S. of William, surgeon, of Essex. B. at Colchester. [Bapt. Feb. 10, 1737, in St Mary-at-the-Walls.] School, Colchester (Mr Smythies). ' Matric. Michs. 1754; B.A. 1758; M.A. 1780. Ord. deacon (London) Sept. 23, 1759; priest (Rochester, for London) Feb. 15, 1761. R. of Little Bentley, Essex, 1765-1824. R. of St Martin's, Colchester, 1770-1824. Chaplain to the Horse Guards Blue, 1765-87; and to the Earl Waldegrave. Married, 1773, Ann, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Leigh, of Greenwich. Author, Sermon. Died Oct. 13, 1824, at Colchester. (St John's Coll. Adm., III. 629.)