Venn: Adm. sizar at CLARE, June 11, 1758. [Youngest s. of the Rev. Joseph, of Winton (and Isabel). B. Mar. 1735-6, at Winton, in the parish of Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland. Schools, Winton and Appleby.] ' Matric. July, 1765. Private tutor and usher at Wakefield Free School. Ordained, 1760, while at Wakefield. C. of Dagenham, Essex, 1761-4. C. and Lecturer of St John's, Clerkenwell, 1764. Assistant Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1765. R. of Blagdon, Somerset, 1766-79. Preb. of Wells Cathedral, 1777. Married (1) Jan. 1767, Ann Cracroft, who died 1768; (2) 1772, Isabella, dau. of Mr John Thompson, of Brough, Westmorland (died 1776). Author, Poetical Works. Joint translator, with his brother William, of Plutarch's Lives, 1770, 5th edn. 1792. Also published at her request, his letters to his first wife before their marriage, under the title of Letters to Eleanora. Died Apr. 1, 1779, at Blagdon House. Father of John T. (1786). (D.N.B.; C. R. Hudleston.)
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