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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Jan. 1, 1813. [Eldest] s. of John (for whom see D.N.B.) [of Lincoln's Inn Fields]. B. in London. Private tuition. ' Matric. Michs. 1813; Scholar, 1816; B.A. (18th Wrangler) 1818; M.A. 1823. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Jan. 19, 1816. Ord. priest, 1819; English Chaplain and Missionary to the Jews at Amsterdam, 1819-26. C. of Blackford, Somerset, 1828. Minister of Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, London, 1842-3. Secretary to the Trinitarian Bible Society, London, 1846-51. C. of St Matthew's Chapel, Pell Street, 1848-50 and 1852-3. Lecturer on Elocution and Public Reading at King's College, London, 1850-63. Author of a number of works, chiefly of a polemical kind. Died Nov. 30, 1863, at 43, Torrington Square. Father of Edward (1856), Francis (1858), Henry M. (1853) and Sydney (1855). (Boase, III. 919; Inns of Court; D.N.B.; Clergy List; G. Mag., 1864, I. 128.)