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Adm. sizar (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, May 29, 1767. [Eldest] s. of James, of [Twiston], Lancs. (and Alice, dau. of Richard Lawson, of Langcliffe). B. at Downham. School, Sedbergh. ' Matric. Michs. 1767; Scholar, 1767; B.A. (Senior Wrangler and 1st Smith's prize) 1771; M.A. 1774. Fellow, 1771-82. Ord. deacon (Carlisle); priest (Lichfield) Mar. 12, 1775. Sometime C. of Milton, Cambs. V. of Blackburn, Lancs., 1780-1818. P.C. of Downham. Married Ann, dau. of Thomas Yatman, of London. Author, Sermons. Died Aug. 26, 1818, aged 68; buried at Downham. Father of the next and the above. (Sedbergh Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm., III. 717; G. Mag., 1818, 379; W. Cole MS., which calls him "a north countryman, with a brogue.")