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Adm. sizar at CORPUS CHRISTI, July 22, 1774. Of Norwich. [S. of William, tradesman, of Norwich. B. Feb. 18, 1758. School, Stanmore (Dr Samuel Parr).] ' Matric. Lent, 1776; Scholar; B.A. 1779. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Feb. 20, 1780; priest, May 26, 1782; C. of Taverham, Norfolk, 1780, and of Earlham. V. of Earlham with Bowthorpe, 1791-1817. Assistant Master at Norwich Grammar School for three years. Master of Emanuel Hospital, London. R. of All Hallows, London Wall, 1797-1817. Preb. of Lincoln, 1797. Preb. of St Paul's, 1805-17. Keeper of printed books at the British Museum, 1803-6. F.S.A., 1792. Established jointly with Archdeacon Nares, the British Critic, 1793. Contributed to Tooke's Biographical Dictionary; excelled chiefly as a translator and annotator. Married Miss Rix, dau. of William Rix, Town Clerk of London. Author, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books; The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life; classical translations, Herodotus, etc. Died Apr. 11, 1817. Buried at All Hallows. Father of Henry P. (1808). (G. Mag., 1817, I. 371; Hennessy; D.N.B.)