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Adm. pens. at EMMANUEL, July 3, 1827. Of Warwickshire. [S. of R., of The Spring, Southam. B. 1809. School, Shrewsbury.] ' Matric. Michs. 1827; Scholar; B.A. 1831; M.A. 1838. Ord. deacon, 1832; priest, 1833; C. of Twickenham, Middlesex, 1832-4. C. of St John-the-Evangelist, Edinburgh, 1834-7. C. of St Chad's, Shrewsbury, 1837-9. P.C. of St James's, Leeds, 1839-43. V. of Welford, Northants., 1843-76. R. of Winwick, 1876-83. Rural Dean of Haddon, 1876. Rural Dean of Winwick. The work of his life was to promote the revival of Gothic architecture. Author, A History of England; A History of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England; Sir Raoul de Broc and his son Tristram, a Tale of the Twelfth Century; etc. Died Sept. 25, 1883, at Winwick. Reredos in Welford Church erected to his memory and that of his wife Susanna in 1888. Brother of John C. (1843). (Shrewsbury Sch. Reg.; Boase, II. 1582; Crockford; Northants. Clergy, XI. 35; D.N.B.)