Venn: Adm. pens. (age 16) at MAGDALENE, May 2, 1691. S. of Tobias. B. at Wakefield, Yorks, School, Wakefield. ' Matric. 1691; B.A. 1694-5; M.A. 1698. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Sept. 25, 1698; priest, May 31, 1702. C. of Bulwick, Northants., 1698. Lecturer at Wakefield parish church, 1702-31. Governor of the school. Married Mary, dau. of Rev. William Heron, R. of Hoyland, Yorks., Mar. 26, 1706. Died Dec. 28, 1731. Buried at Horbury