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Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 19) at CHRIST'S, May 28, 1774. S. and h. of Robert, Esq. (and his 2nd wife, Mary, dau. of Thomas Bridges, of Leeds). B. there May 11, 1755. School, Felsted. ' Matric. Michs. 1777; B.A. 1778; M.A. 1782. Ord. deacon (Ely) Sept. 1778. V. (and patron) of Heckington, Lincs., 1783-1822. Married Lucinda, dau. of Matthew Fretwell, Esq., of Snaith, Yorks., Dec. 8, 1778. Died Jan. 1, 1822. Perhaps brother of Thomas (1777); father of Henry B. (1810). (Peile, II. 299; Burke, Seats and Arms, 2nd S., I. 43.)