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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, May 27, 1819. S. of Sir Matthew, Bart. B. Sept. 25, 1801, at Milford, Hants. School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1819. Migrated to Emmanuel, June 1, 1820; Scholar, 1821; B.A. 1823; M.A. 1827; M.L. 1837; M.D. 1841. Fellow of Emmanuel. Ord. deacon (Ely) Nov. 7, 1824; C. of Bilton, Warws. V. of Lymington, Hants., 1830-3; owing to loss of voice gave up the Church. Studied medicine at Cambridge and Paris; practised at Birmingham; Physician there to the General Hospital. F.R.C.P., 1843. Practised at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, 1848-71. F.R.S., 1840. Married Frances, dau. of John Folliott Powell, of Sandy Brook, Derby, Aug. 1825. Author, medical; also Sermons. Died Dec. 17, 1878, at 140, Harley Street, London. Father of John R. (1849) and Douglas Y. (1865). (Boase; H. E. Blakiston.)