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Adm. Fell.-Com. at JESUS, June 25, 1810. [Natural] s. of Sir John, Bart. (for whom see D.N.B.). [B. Jan. 22, 1790, in Cornwall. School, Westminster.] ' Matric. Michs. 1810; B.A. 1814. Ord. deacon (London) Sept. 25, 1814. V. of St Crowan, Cornwall, 1818-28. Married Elizabeth Anne, divorced wife of Sir John Tyssen Tyrrell, Bart., and eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Pilkington, Bart. Author of Mazza and of two other novels. Died at Fontainebleau, France, July 17, 1857. Brother of Edward (1816), etc. (Record of Old Westminsters; G. Mag., 1857, II. 464; Boase, III. 377; Biblio. Cornub., 616; Boase, Collect. Cornub., 857.)