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Adm. at TRINITY, Mar. 22, 1783; a Ten-year man. Did not matriculate. The Poet. S. of George, schoolmaster at Norton, Norfolk; afterwards collector of salt-duties at Aldborough, Suffolk. B. Dec. 24, 1754, at Aldborough. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Dec. 21, 1781; priest, Aug. 4, 1782. LL.B. (Canterbury) 1789. C. of Aldborough, Suffolk, 1781. Chaplain, at Belvoir, to the Duke of Rutland, 1782-5. C. of Stathern, Leics., 1785. R. of Muston, 1789. R. of Allington, Lincs., 1790-1814. R. of Trowbridge, Wilts., 1814-32. [His admission at Trinityunnoticed in D.N.B.is referred to in his son's Life of George Crabbe, p. 34: It was now considered desirable that Mr Crabbe, as the chaplain to a nobleman, should have a University degree, and the Bishop of Llandaff (Dr Watson) very kindly entered his name on the boards of Trinity College, Cambridge that he might have the privilege of a degree, after a certain number of terms, and without residence. This arrangement, however, had hardly been made when he received an invitation to dine with Lord Thurlow. As a result of this visit he received the livings of Frome St Quintin and Evershot, Dorset... and Mr Crabbe, that he might be entitled to hold this preferment, immediately obtained the degree of LL.B. from the Archbishop of Canterbury, instead of waiting for it at Cambridge]. Had a system of periodical incremations, among the works destroyed being An Essay on Botany and three novels. Died Feb. 3, 1832. Monument at Trowbridge. Father of the next and John W. (1807). (George Crabbe, Life; D.N.B.)