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Adm. sizar at CORPUS CHRISTI, Mar. 14, 1752. Of Yorkshire . [S. of Leonard, master-cutler, of Sheffield (and Lidia). B. Sept. 1733. School, Sheffield Collegiate.] Matric. Michs. 1752; Scholar, 1753; B.A. (Senior Wrangler and 1st Chancellor's medal) 1756; M.A. 1759. Fellow, 1760-6. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) 1757. Chaplain for a short time to the Bishop of Lincoln. Died Oct. 6, 1766.
Gough writes in his Memoirs : 'I shall ever regret Mr Webster and Mr Cowper, the former by a habit of study brought a weak constitution to an end; the latter lived to make a greater progress, when he was carried off by a violent fever.' ( Northamptonshire . Clergy; Lamb ; Hunter, Hallamshire, 265; Cambridge Chronicle, Oct. 17, 1766; P. J. Wallis.)