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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, May 27, 1785. [Only s. of John, apothecary, deceased, of Sheffield, and Mary, dau. of Leonard Webster, cutler, of Sheffield, also deceased. School, Halifax.] ' Matric. Michs. 1785; B.A. 1789; M.A. 1804. Ord. deacon (Ely, Litt. dim. from York) Dec. 19, 1790; priest, Mar. 11, 1792; C. of Tickhill, Yorks., 1790. R. of Knotting with Souldrop, Beds., 1792-1856. V. of Little Marlow, Bucks., 1804-21. V. of Melchbourne, Beds., 1821-7. R. of Turvey, 1827-56. R. of Lower Gravenhurst, 1834-42. Married, Apr. 27, 1792, Anne, dau. of the Rev. Henry Downes, V. of Ecclesfield. Author, The Antidote, a Political Poem, and other poems in the Poetical Register. Died Apr. 27, 1856, at Redruth. Father of the next (though F.M.G. gives died without issue). (G. F. W. Munby, Former Days at Turvey, 46; F.M.G., II. 696; Clergy List; Scott, MSS., which gives died Apr. 17; Cant. Act Bk.; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 295; Foster, Index Eccles.)