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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, May 18, 1806. [Only] s. of the Rev. Hugh (1778; CCE18729), of Shropshire (and Harriet, dau. of Edward Jeffreys, of Shrewsbury). [B. Mar. 3, 1788.] ' Matric. Michs. 1806; Scholar, 1806; B.A. 1810; M.A. 1816. Ord. deacon (Lichfield) 1811; priest, 1812; C. of St Julian's, Shrewsbury, 1811-17. V. of Wellington and R. of Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors, Shropshire, 1823-40. Sometime Preacher at Park Street Chapel, Grosvenor Square, London. Produced etchings and pictures in oils. Married, Dec. 6, 1825, Mary, only dau. of Samuel Darby, of Colebrookdale. Lived for many years at Cheltenham and latterly at Bettws Hall, Monmouthshire. Died July 15, 1863, at Cheltenham. M.I., St James's, Cheltenham. (Shrewsbury Sch. Reg., which gives died Nov. 6; Boase, II. 1284; G. Mag., 1863, II. 244; D.N.B.)