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Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, Nov. 4, 1758. [3rd s. of George [Codd], Esq., of Hemswell, Lincs. B. in 1739. School, Wakefield.] ' Matric. Michs. 1758; LL.B. 1766. R. of Little Steeping, Lincs., 1765-82. R. of Gayton-le-Wolds, 1771-1811. R. of Firsby with Great Steeping, 1782. Preb. of Lincoln, 1801. R. of Willoughby St Helen, 1811-15. Assumed the surname of Walls, 1778, as devisee of Joseph Walls, of Boothby Hall. Married (1) 1773, Mary, dau. of T. Booth, of Wainfleet St Mary; (2) Elizabeth Wilson. Lived latterly at Spilsby, where he died Mar. 15, 1815. Father of Richard (1792). (Cant. Act Book; G. Mag., 1815, I. 377; Foster, Index Eccles.; M. H. Peacock; Changes of Name; P. B. G. Binnall.)