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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Sept. 16, 1809. 2nd s. of P. [Pierce Joseph], Esq. (Exeter College, Oxford, 1772), of Ogwell House, near Newton [Abbott], Devon (and Charlotte, dau. of the Very Rev. William Cooke, Dean of Ely). [B. July 18, 1791.] School, Fulham [and Eton]. ' Matric. Michs. 1810; B.A. 1814; M.A. 1817. Ord. deacon (Exeter), May 28, 1815; priest, Nov. 12, 1815. R. of West Ogwell, Devon, 1816-29. R. of South Pool, and Stokenham with Chilvestone-and Sherford, 1829-61. Married, Aug. 11, 1827, his cousin, Marianne, 5th dau. of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph. Died Jan. 24, 1861, aged 69, at Torquay. (Eton Sch. Lists; Clergy Lists; Crockford; G. Mag., 1861, I. 347; Burke, L.G.; Sir W. Sterry.)