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Adm. pens. at JESUS, Oct. 16, 1782. S. and h. of Thomas (1741), clerk, deceased. B. Mar. 3, 1765, at East Newton, Yorks. [Bapt. Mar. 6, 1765, at Stonegrave, Yorks.] School, Wakefield. Scholar, 1783; matric. Easter, 1784; B.A. 1787. C. of Dundry, Somerset, 1788. V. of Creech St Michael, Somerset, 1793. R. of Oswald Kirk, Yorks., 1813-35. Lived at East Newton, Yorks. J.P. Sold the East Newton Estate. Married Elizabeth, dau. of John Coote, of Paternoster Row, London, May 30, 1792. Author, pamphlets; The Life of Thomas Comber, Dean of Durham (his great grandfather), 1799. Died Aug. 7, 1835, at Oswald Kirk. Buried there. M.I. Will ('Prerogative Court of Canterbury.'P.C.C.) 1835. Father of Henry G. W. (1817). (F.M.G., 768; M. H. Peacock; T. C. Dale.)