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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Mar. 11, 1818. Of Somerset. [4th s. of Thomas, Esq., of Dilton, Wilts. B. July 6, 1800, at Bathwick, Somerset.] School, Bath Grammar. ' Matric. Michs. 1818; B.A. 1827. V. of Britford, Wilts., 1849-68. Married, Mar. 14, 1822, Mary Ann, dau. of John William Barton, D.L., for Somerset. Died Feb. 4, 1868, at Britford. Buried there. M.I. Admon. C.P.C., 1868. [Crockford, confusing this man with his son of the same names, gives the V. of Britford as D.C.L., of Magdalen College, Oxford. Al. Oxon., however, describes the son as 2nd s. of Richard, of Wolverton, Somerset, clerk; chorister at Magdalen College, 1834-42; demy, 1842-51; B.A. 1846; M.A. 1849; D.C.L. 1854; schoolmaster at Magdalen College, 1864-76; Precentor and Hon. Canon of Bangor, 1864; Head Master of Beaumaris Grammar School, 1849-64; R. of Stanway, Essex, 1874; Dioc. Inspector of Schools, 1877. G. Mag., 1868, I. 550, in a note states that the obit. notice of the father, given on page 403 of same volume, confused him with his son, but still gives the latter as V. of Britford, 1849-68.] (Clergy List; Crockford; G. Mag., 1868, I. 403 and 550; Misc. Gen. et Her., 2nd S., IV. 268.)