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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, May 5, 1769. Of Hampshire. [3rd s. of Charles, of Southampton (and Mary Kelly). School, Harrow.] ' Matric. Michs. 1769; Scholar, 1769; B.A. (2nd Wrangler, and 2nd Smith's prize) 1773; M.A. 1776; B.D. 1784; D.D. 1800. Fellow, 1773-1802; Tutor, 1787-97. Ord. priest (Lichfield), Mar. 3, 1776. R. of Quatt, Salop, 1776-1800. Chaplain at Horningsea, Cambs., 1784. R. of Lawford, Essex, 1800-5. F.R.S., 1797. When Tutor at St John's "a very numerous mob," on the evening of Dec. 13, 1792, broke the windows of many Dissenters in the town; the next morning he addressed his pupils on what he designated "a laudable exhibition of justifiable zeal." Died Nov. 25, 1805, in Pall Mall. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 554; Harrow Reg.; Gunning, I. 277.)