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Adm. pens. (age 22) at TRINITY, Dec. 31, 1822. S. of Henry [M.D.] (and Sarah, dau. of Thomas Pidwell). B. [Aug. 7, 1800], at Penzance, Cornwall. Schools, Bodmin [and Penzance Grammar; also studied medicine in Edinburgh]. ' Matric. Lent, 1823. Migrated to Peterhouse, Oct. 21, 1823; B.A. 1827; M.A. 1830. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, 1847. Ord. deacon (Bath and Wells) 1826; priest, 1828; C. of Morvah, Cornwall, 1828-42. His eyesight failing he retired to Penzance, where the remainder of his life was spent. A keen antiquary. Had a herbarium. Author of articles in the G. Mag. and Notes and Queries. Contributed to J. E. Smith's Botany. Died, unmarried, Apr. 24, 1862, at Penzance; buried in St Mary's churchyard. M.I. (Al. Oxon.; Boase, Biblio. Cornub., 452; T. A. Walker, 418, MS. note; Cornwall Reg., 44; Clergy List; G. Mag., 1862, II. 106-7.)