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Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Dec. 22, 1824. S. of Midgley John, of Stevenage. B. there [June 8], 1806. ' Matric. Michs. 1825; Scholar, 1826; B.A. (20th Wrangler) 1829; M.A. 1832. Fellow, 1830-2. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Dec. 1830; priest, Feb. 1831. One of the H.E.I.C.'s Chaplains. Missionary (E.I.C.) in India, 1832-57. A very earnest worker, in the spirit of the Oxford Movement (Bishop Lightfoot). After 1842 he never returned to England, but he and his wife both suffered in health, and several of their children died in infancy. In 1847, when Chaplain at Kasauli, had leave of absence, on a medical certificate, for two years to visit Cape Colony. Originated the first Delhi Mission; having collected £3000, the S.P.G. gave £8000 from their special Jubilee Fund. Killed May 11, 1857, at Delhi, with other members of the Mission, at the outbreak of the Mutiny. A memorial was erected by the S.P.G. at Cawnpore, on which he is described as Priest, Chaplain, and Founder of the S.P.G. Mission to Delhi. [His eldest son, William Henry John, entered Exeter College, Oxford, 1856; described in Al. Oxon. as 1st s. of Medgley John, of Cawnpore, India, clerk.] (Peile, II. 418; Clergy List, 1848-56 (under Chaplains in E.I.C.).)