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Adm. pens. (age 20) at ST JOHN'S, May 21, 1812. 4th s. of the Rev. Sir Charles (1799) [1st] Bart. [of Shirley House, Hants., who had assumed the name of Rich, Dec. 23, 1790] (and Mary Frances, only dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Rich). B. Sept. 27, 1789, at Farnham, Surrey. School. Harrow. [In the H.E.I.C.; Woolwich Cadet, 1805; Ensign, 15th Bengal N.I., 1807; Lieut., Apr. 13, 1809; resigned, Jan. 12, 1813.] ' Matric. Michs. 1812; B.A. 1816; M.A. 1819, Ord. deacon (Lichfield, litt. dim. from Salisbury) May 21, 1815; priest (Hereford, litt. dim. from Winchester) March 24, 1816. R. of Cheddington and V. of Ivinghoe, Bucks., 1821-46. R. of Newtimber, Sussex, 1846-56. Married, Aug. 3, 1825, Georgiana, dau. of Charles Gordon, and had issue. Died June 24, 1856, at the rectory, Newtimber. (Harrow Sch. Reg.; G. M. Routledge; Burke, P. and B.; I.C.S. Lists.)