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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 29, 1792. [Doubtless s. of Samuel (1758), and Catherine.] B. at Shrewsbury. [Bapt. Nov. 23, 1775, at St Mary's, Shrewsbury.] School, Shrewsbury. Scholar, 1792; kept nine (not consecutive) terms by residence; name off, 1799. Ord. deacon (Lichfield and Coventry) May 28, 1797; priest, Dec. 21, 1798; C. of Atcham, Salop, 1797. P.C. of Withington, 1799. Head Master of Wigan Grammar School, 1811-13; of Clitheroe Grammar School, 1813-14 (M.A.), and C. of Clitheroe. Committed suicide, Feb. 14, 1814, at Bashall Lodge, Lancaster. Probably father of Charles (1816). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 335; G. C. Chambres; G. Mag., 1814, I. 520.)