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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 11, 1822. Of Middlesex. [B. 1802.] School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1823; B.A. 1827; M.A. 1834. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Nov. 10, 1820, as 6th s. of Charles, late Chelsea. Ord. deacon (Lichfield and Coventry) Feb. 11, 1827; priest, Mar. 23, 1828; C. of Normanton, Yorks. C. of Eccleshall. Minister of the New Church at Wadsley, 1833. C.M.S. missionary in Zululand, 1836-44. Witnessed the murder of Piet Retief and his party in 1838. P.C. of St Thomas's, Crookes, Sheffield, 1845-54. Married, 1834, Sarah Pennington, dau. of R. Bayley, of Sheffield. His Diary, 1837-8, was edited by Sir G. E. Cory for the Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, 1926. Died Nov. 14, 1854, at Alexandria, of fever, on his return from a tour in Syria. (List of Carthusians; Inns of Court; G. Mag., 1855, I. 214; C.M.S. Reg. of Miss.; H. D. Hooper; R. L. Arrowsmith; F. P. White; British Magazine, VI. 702.)