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Adm. pens. (age 17) at CHRIST'S, Oct. 24, 1820. S. of Charles. B. Apr. 1, 1803, at Biggen, Oundle. Schools, [Oundle] and Rugby. ' Matric. Michs. 1821; Scholar, 1822; B.A. 1825; M.A. 1828. Hon. Fellow, 1883. Ord. deacon, Dec. 21, 1826; priest (Peterb.) Dec. 23, 1827; C. of Stibbington, Hunts. C. of St John's, Margate, Kent, 1829-33. P.C. of Wood Newton and of Apethorpe, Northants., 1833-68. V. of Sibbertoft, 1868-86. Rural Dean of Rothwell. F.L.S., 1876. F.R.S., 1879; Royal medal, 1863. Member of the Academy of Sciences of Sweden. Botanist; a great authority on fungi, algae, etc. and a frequent contributor to the Gardener's Chronicle. His collection of algae was subsequently added to the Cambridge University Herbarium. Author, Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany; Outlines of British Fungology; Handbook of British Mosses, etc. Died July 30, 1889, aged 86, at Sibbertoft. Father of Julian C. (1873). (Peile, II. 401; D.N.B., Suppl. I.)