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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, June 17, 1800. [3rd] s. of [Sir] William Weller (Christ Church, Oxford, 1758) [1st Bart.], of London (and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of the Rt. Hon. William Dowdeswell, Chancellor of the Exchequer). [B. Apr. 18, 1783.] School, Harrow. ' Matric. Michs. 1800; Scholar, 1801; B.A. 1804. Migrated to St John's; M.A. 1807; B.D. 1814; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1840. Fellow of St John's, 1806-23. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Dec. 13, 1807; priest (Ely) Apr. 10, 1808; C. of Swaffham Prior, Cambs., 1808. R. of Aspenden, Herts., 1818-27. R. of Moreton, Essex, 1822-40. Prebendary of Wells, 1826. R. of Westmill, Herts., 1827-40. Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1840-1; Bishop of Worcester, 1841-60. Married, Jan. 27, 1824, Maria, 3rd dau. of the Rt. Hon. John Sullivan, Commissioner of the board of control, and had issue. Author, The Remains of the Lord Viscount Royston, with a Memoir of his Life. In politics he was a Liberal. Died Nov. 13, 1860, at Hartlebury Castle, Stourport. Brother of Charles C. (1797) and William W. (1795); father of Philip H. (1842) and Herbert G. (1848). (Boase, VI. 1459; Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1860, II. 674.)