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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 4, 1811. S. of the Rev. Samuel, of Bolton, Lancs. [B. June 8, 1793.] School, Manchester Grammar. ' Matric. Michs. 1811; Scholar, 1814; B.A. 1815; M.A. 1818. Fellow, 1817-24. Ord. deacon (Norwich), June 11, 1820; priest, June 17, 1821. Sometime Assistant Master at Buntingford Grammar School, and at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School; Head Master of Sheffield Grammar School, 1818-30; of Wolverhampton Grammar School, 1830-55. Married, June 24, 1823, Eliza, dau. of the Rev. Samuel Dewe [CCE10601], Master of Buntingford Grammar School. Died Feb. 23, 1855, at Wolverhampton. Father of Francis O. (1850), William A. (1842) and Frederick A. (1848). (Manchester Sch. Reg.; Boase, VI. 854; Clergy List; G. P. Mander, History of Wolverhampton School, 228-37; The Guardian, Mar. 7, 1855.)