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Adm. sizar (age 19) at TRINITY, Jan. 6, 1819. [Younger] s. of William Tiffin. B. [Nov. 12, 1799], at Nottingham. Schools [St Paul's, 1809, and] Christ's Hospital, London [1819]. ' Matric. Michs. 1819; Scholar, 1822; B.A. 1823; M.A. 1826; D.D. 1838. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, 1843. Ord. deacon, 1823; priest, 1824. Assistant Master at Shrewsbury School. P.C. of St Julian, Shrewsbury, 1826-. St Matthew's Day Preacher, 1830. Head Master of the Royal Institution's School, Liverpool. P.C. of St Philip's, Liverpool, 1844-6. Master of the Grange School, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, 1856-62. P.C. of Gateforth, Yorks., 1862-8; resigned. Editor of the Biblia Ecclesiae Polyglotta. Author, Songs of the Sea Ports; Songs of the Heavenly Home; One Hundred Evening Hymns; Prayers for Boarding Schools, etc. Died Mar. 9, 1869, at Sunderland. Father of the next. (St Paul's Sch. Reg.; Christ's Hospital Exhibitioners; Boase, II. 5; Crockford; Clergy List; Foster, Index Eccles.; Al. Oxon.)