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Adm. pens. (age 18) at CHRIST'S, Dec. 3, 1771. S. of the Rev. John James, D.D. [His grandfather was a Huguenot who settled at Exeter.] B. [Oct. 7, 1754], in Middlesex. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1772; Scholar, 1772; B.A. (3rd Hon. Wrangler) 1776; M.A. 1785; D.D. 1791. Fellow, 1776. Ord. deacon (Canterbury, Litt. dim. from Lichfield) 1774; priest (Worcester) [p.296] 1783. Preceptor to Prince William, afterwards William IV, 1781. V. of Bromsgrove, Worcs., 1783-5. Canon of Windsor, 1785-98. V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset, 1790-3; established a Sunday school there at a time when such an institution was regarded as dangerous folly. V. of Hungerford, 1793-8. Canon of St Paul's, 1798-1809. V. of Windsor, 1798-1800. Bishop of Chester, 1800-9; Bishop of Bangor, 1809-30. Married, Apr. 11, 1785, Anne Routledge, of Stapleton, Cumberland, and had 13 children. Author, Sermons, etc. Died, July 9, 1830, at Longdon, near Lichfield. His contemporaries allude to the corpulence of his person, and the imperturbable gravity of his countenance. Father of Henry William, Stuart [CCE18377] and John Routledge. (Peile, II. 294; Burke, L.G.; Cant. Act Book; Foster, Index Eccles.; D.N.B.)
NB clash on ordination dates with CCE evidence