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Adm. sizar (age 20) at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 28, 1825. S. of W., Warden of Trinity College, Greenwich, Kent. School, Christ's Hospital. ' Matric. Michs. 1825; B.A. 1829; Tyrwhitt Scholar, 1831; M.A. 1832. Ord. deacon (Lichfield) Dec. 20, 1829; priest, July 11, 1830. C. of St Bartholomew's, Birmingham, in 1833. C. of St Michael Royal, London, in 1848. Head Master of the Mercers' School, London, 1840-8; Chaplain, 1840-68. P.C. of St John's, Chigwell, Essex, 1848-68. Chaplain to the Earl of Camperdown. Married, Nov. 19, 1833, Cecilia Susannah, dau. of Muzio Clementi, the composer. Editor of a bible giving the various translations and the original passages where they differ from the authorised version. Died Jan. 6, 1868, aged 64, at Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Father of Cecil C. (1859), Percival. C. (1867) and Herbert C. (1855). (R. P. Graham-Vivian; Crockford; G. Mag., 1867, I. 262.)