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Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, July 1, 1760. S. of the Rev. Morley (1722) (and Mary Cawthorne, for whom see D.N.B.). B. Mar. 15, 1744, at Grimston, Norfolk. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1761; Scholar, 1761; 2nd Chancellor's Classical medal, 1764; Members' prize, 1766; B.A. 1764; M.A. 1767. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 20, 1767; priest, May 21, 1769; C. of Comberton, Cambs. R. of Stock from 1778 and of Ramsden Crays, Essex, from 1780. Chaplain to Lord Bolingbroke. Friend of Cowper, who described him in a letter to Lady Hesketh, Sept. 14, 1765, as "one of the most unreserved and amiable young men I ever conversed with; having nothing in his heart which makes it necessary for him to keep it barred and bolted, he opens it to the perusal of even a stranger". His mother was for many years Cowper's closest companion, and he speaks of her as a second mother. Decidedly Evangelical, and, according to Meadley, his admirers, including the cook, followed him to Comberton, which made Paley declare that "Unwin was unduly favoured, since he (Paley) never got such suppers elsewhere". Married Miss - Shuttleworth, and had issue. Author, The Right Use of the Law; The Sinfulness of buying Raw Goods; Friendly Reproof to those who seldom attend Public Worship. Died at Winchester, Nov. 29, 1786, aged 41, "in the prime of life", when on tour with a friend, having been seized with a "putrid fever"; buried in Winchester Cathedral. (Peile, II. 271; D.N.B.; William Cowper, Letters, ed. J. G. Frazer, I. 20; Al. Carthus.)