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Adm. pens. (age 20) at CHRIST'S, Mar. 14, 1820. S. of John. B. in Devon. School, Saffron Walden (Rev. N. Bull). ' Matric. Michs. 1820; B.A. 1824. Ord. deacon (Exeter) 1824; priest, 1825. C. of Launcells, Cornwall, 1834-9. V. of Manaccan, Cornwall, 1839-46. C. of St Anthony-in-Meneage. R. of Bratton Clovelly, 1846-65. A learned theologian and a skilled geologist; translated the Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Statues, for Pusey's Library of the Fathers; a frequent contributor of articles to the Transactions of the Geological Society; wrote for the Saturday Review. Author, The Christian Naturalist; Lives of Men of Great Æras, etc. Died Aug. 3, 1865, aged 65, at Bratton Clovelly. (Peile, II. 398; D.N.B.)