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Adm. pens. at QUEENS', Dec. 19, 1776. [7th] s. of Edmund (1720; [CCE3425]), Bishop of Carlisle (and Mary, dau. of John Christian, Esq.). B. Sept. 12, 1761, at Peterhouse Lodge. Schools, Ipswich and Charterhouse.] ' Matric. Lent, 1779; Scholar, 1780; 1st Chancellor's medal, 1781; B.A. (2nd Wrangler) 1781; M.A. 1784; D.D. 1804. Fellow, 1781-4. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, June 10, 1834; Visitor of Wadham College. Prebendary of Carlisle, 1785. V. of Torpenhow, Cumberland, 1787-91. R. of Kelshall, Herts., 1791-1802. V. of Carleton, Lincs., 1797-. R. of Willingham, Cambs., 1804-12. Bishop of Chester, 1812-24. Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1824-45. F.R.S., 1814. F.S.A. Established and partially endowed the College of St Bees, 1817, for the training of candidates for Holy Orders whose means did not permit of their going to a University. A staunch Conservative in all ecclesiastical matters, he vigorously opposed the Test and Corporation Acts and other measures of reform. Married, 1784, Jane, eldest dau. of General Adeane, M.P. for Cambridgeshire. Published numerous Sermons and a new edition of his father's Theocracy of Religion. Died Sept. 22, 1845, at Banwell Cottage, Wells, after "a gradual decay of mind and body," which for many years had prevented him from performing his duties. Buried at Wells. Brother of John (1762 CCE3428), etc.; father of Henry (1816), James T. (1807; CCE13759) and Robert V. (1817). (S. H. Cassan, Bishops of Bath and Wells (in which is a portrait of him); Al. Oxon.; Cant. Act Bk.; Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1845, II. 529.)