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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, June 23, 1709. S. of Bernard, mercer, of Newark, Notts. School, Westminster. ' Matric. 1709; Scholar, 1710; B.A. 1712-3; M.A. 1719; D.D. 1737. Ord. deacon (London) Mar. 16, 1711-2; priest (Lincoln) Feb. 26, 1715-6. R. of Firsby, Lincs., 1715-9. V. of Gt Steeping, 1715-9. V. of Newark, Notts., 1719-72. R. of Winthorpe, 1719. Preb. of Lincoln, 1727-72; of Lichfield, 1730-72, and of Worcester, 1734-72. Master of St Leonard's Hospital, Newark. R. of Bottesford, Leics., 1735. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Mar. 14, 1736-7. A member of the Gentleman's Society at Spalding. Published an English version of Dethou's Historia sui Temporis. Died Apr. 30, 1772. Buried at Newark. M.I. Will, P.C.C. (D.N.B.; Al. Westmon., 251; Dickinson's Newark, 304.)
Noted in Namier's Structure of Politics as controlling significant electoral interest in Newark - in 1754 backing Edward Delaval. See REG Cole, History of Doddington