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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, June 21, 1791. Of Warwickshire. [S. of Benjamin, surgeon (deceased), of Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A., and , dau. of Illedge Maddox, of Withington, Salop. B. 1772.] School, King Edward's Free Grammar School, Birmingham. ' Matric. Michs. 1791; Scholar, 1791; B.A. 1795; M.A. 1798. Ord. deacon (Lichfield and Coventry) June 14, 1795. C. of St Paul's, Birmingham, 1797-1817. Tutor at a school at Winson Green, Birmingham. Assistant Master, King Edward's School, Birmingham, 1807-36. V. of St Paul's, Birmingham, 1817-47. For upwards of half a century one of the most able and popular preachers at Birmingham...and obtained the esteem and regard of men of all religious persuasions. Married, 1802, Julia, dau. of John Hall, the engraver (and Mary de Gilles, a French Huguenot). A poet, and friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth and other literary men. Author, many Poems, notably The Reign of Youth, 1840; also of translations from the Classics; Thoughts on Psalmody; A Church of England Psalm-Book. Subsequently resided on a small property called Fox Hollies, at Hall Green, Yardley, Birmingham. Died Jan. 2, 1851, at his son Charles's house in St Paul's Square, Birmingham. Father of Benjamin H. (1822), William J. (1832), Charles R. (1827) and George J. (1829); all his four sons won the Porson prize and three were Senior Classics. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 345; Boase, II. 199; Clergy List; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1852, I. 206; Life of Archdeacon Phelps, II. 74.)