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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S June 12, 1781. S. of the Rev. Charles (1744; CCE18043), formerly Fellow. Of Salop. Schools, Shrewsbury and Birmingham (his father). ' Matric. Michs. 1781; Scholar, 1782; B.A. 1785; M.A. 1789; B.D. 1797. Fellow, 1789-1804. Ord. deacon (Lichfield and Coventry) 1787; C. of Eyton, Salop, 1787-9. V. of Chirbury, 1789-1802. P.C. of Ford, 1802-11. R. of Ditchingham, Norfolk, 1802-38. Preb. of Lichfield and Canon residentiary, 1802-38. Chaplain to Viscount Sidney. Studied heraldry, and justly considered the first amateur herald in the Kingdom. He took a lively interest in everything that related to his native county
carried on the pedigrees of Shropshire families from a very early period to the close of 1837. Possessed the finest private collection of heraldic and genealogical books in England. J. P. for Salop and Staffs. Married, Dec. 1, 1810, Ann Frances, eldest dau. of the Rev. John Lettice, V. of Peasmarsh. Died July 1, 1838, in the Close, Lichfield; buried on the north side of the Cathedral. Father of the above. (Shrewsbury Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 398; G. Mag., 1838, II. 334.)