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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Nov. 10, 1828; re-adm. pens. Oct. 12, 1829. S. of Jacob [Surveyor-General of Ireland], of Portsea, Hants. B. there, July 23, 1809. School, St Paul's Grammar, Portsmouth. ' Matric. Michs. 1829; B.A. 1833; M.A. 1839. Ord. deacon, 1833; priest (Lichfield and Coventry) Jan. 18, 1835; C. of Walsall Wood, Staffs., 1835-7. C. of Farthingstone, Northants., 1837-41. P.C. of St Mary's, Bilston, Staffs., 1841-54. Minister of St John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1855-8. V. of St Jude's, Chelsea, 1858-72. Lecturer of St Swithin's, Cannon Street, and of St John's, Wapping, 1858-72. Married, 1837, Louisa, dau. of J. W. Higgins, of Droxford, Hants. Author, Home Health; Young England; English Charities; Mendicity; Popular Insurance; Polemical Lectures on Infallibility; Trial of the Seven Bishops; Rabbinism the Type of Romanism; The Power of the Keys; Popery in Connection with English History; Social Blessings of the Reformation, etc. Died May 24, 1872, at 40, Cadogan Place, London. Father of Edward A. (1863). (British Mag., II. 237; Boase, II. 1289; Crockford; Simms, Biblio. Staffs.)