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Adm. sizar (age 21) at TRINITY, Mar. 17, 1781. S. of John, of Ferry Hill, Durham. School, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham (Mr Cowper). ' Matric. Michs. 1781; Scholar, 1784; B.A. (8th Wrangler) 1785. Ord. deacon (Durham) Sept. 21, 1783; priest (Norwich) Mar. 12, 1786; C. of Bishopton, Durham, 1783. C. of Necton and Holmhale, Norfolk, 1786. V. of Roxton with Gt Barford, Beds., 1789-1817, and twenty years master of the Latin School at Wymondham, Norfolk, from which he had not long retired. A man of profound erudition. Died suddenly 1817, aged 56. (Surtees, III. 282; G. Mag., 1817, I. 377.)