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Adm. at CLARE, 1828. [4th s. of Francois Jaques Houssemayne, of Forest House, Walthamstow.] ' Matric. Lent, 1828; B.A. 1833; M.A. 1836. Ord. deacon (Exeter) 1833; priest (Bath and Wells) 1834; C. of Stockleigh-Pomeroy, Devon, 1833-5. C. of Shobrooke, 1835-9. Sometime Chaplain to Bishop Philpotts, of Exeter. R. of Lawhitton, Cornwall, 1839-92. Married, 1836, Sybella, dau. of Dr Philpotts, Bishop of Exeter, and had issue. Died Jan. 15, 1892, aged 82. Uncle of the next. This family left France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685, some members settling in England, c. 1750. (Burke, L.G., 650; Crockford; The Guardian, Jan. 20, 1892; Agnew, French Protestant Exiles, Index vol. 248; Cant. Act Bk., which gives R. of Lawhitton from 1849.)