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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, June 18, 1802. S. of John. B. [May 23, 1782], at Colchester. ' Matric. Michs. 1802; B.A. 1806. C. of Stanton-Lacy, Salop, in 1814. C. of Stockton, Shropshire, -1841-4. P.C. of Moreton, Staffs., 1845-8. Chaplain to the Earl of Galloway, 1849-53. R. of Thorndon, Suffolk, 1854-61. Friend and fellow curate of Patrick Brontë. Married Elizabeth, dau. of William Tipton, of Shrewsbury. Author (with his sister Marianne) of Hymns. Died Apr. 16, 1861, aged 79; buried at Thorndon. Brother of William (1810; CCE18681). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 400; W. W. Yates, The Miracle of Haworth; Misc. Gen. et Her., 2nd S., II. 89; G. Mag., 1861, I. 703, which gives died April 15.)