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Venn: Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Feb. 11, 1797. [S. of Thomas, and Anne, of Bedford. B. there Sept. 22, 1780. School, Bedford Grammar.] ' Matric. Michs. 1797; Exhibitioner; B.A. (9th Wrangler) 1801; M.A. 1804. Fellow, 1802-8. Ord. deacon, 1802; priest, 1803. Assisted Charles Simeon at Cambridge in 1802. C. of Wraxall, near Bristol, 1803-9. C. of Clifton, 1809-22. C. of Dowry Chapel, Clifton, 1822-30. P.C. of Trinity, Clifton, 1830-44. P.C. of Christ Church, Clifton, 1844-7. P.C. of Clifton, 1847-64. Canon of Bristol, 1858. A noted Evangelical divine. Married, Sept. 16, 1808. Elizabeth, sister of the Rev. James Vaughan, R. of Wraxall. A Chapel-of-ease was consecrated as a memorial to him at Clifton. Died Apr. 23, 1864. (Lamb; D.N.B.; Boase, I. 1434; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1864, I. 803.)