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Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Nov. 14, 1807. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. George Henry (1776; CCE3427) [and Jane Adeane]. B. [Dec. 8, 1790], at Carlisle. Schools [Carlisle Grammar and] Greenwich. ' Matric. Michs. 1808; Scholar, 1809; B.A. 1812; M.A. 1815. Fellow, 1814-17. Ord. deacon (Chester) 1814; priest, 1815. R. of Tattenhall, Cheshire, 1816. V. of Childwall, Lancs., 1818. V. of Bowdon, Cheshire, 1818-21. King's Preacher, Lancs., 1818-21. Preb. of Chester, 1818-28. Preb. of Lichfield, 1818. Chancellor of Lichfield, 1821-73. V. of Harborne, Staffs., 1825-45. Special Commissary of the diocese of Bath and Wells, 1840. Master of St John's Hospital, Lichfield. Hon. Warden of Queen's College, Birmingham, 1846. Married, Dec. 16, 1820, Lady Henrietta Charlotte Grey, eldest dau. of George Harry, 6th Earl of Stamford and Warrington, and had issue. Author, Lectures on Provinces and Dioceses, and other ecclesiastical works; also, The Poor Man's Garden, or a few brief Rules for Regulating Allotments of Land to the Poor for Potato Gardens. Died Feb. 22, 1876, at Lichfield. Brother of Henry (1816) and Robert V. (1817); father of George H. (1840) and James A. (1840). (Carlisle Gr. Sch. Reg.; Boase, II. 323; Boase, Coll. Cornub., 478; Peile, II. 360; Crockford; Cant. Act Bk.; D.N.B.)