Venn: dm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, May 20, 1756. S. of William, attorney-at-law, of Frome, Somerset. B. there. Bapt. June 18, 1738. Schools [Reading] Harrow [and Winchester]. ' Matric. Michs. 1756. Migrated to Caius, July 2, 1759; Scholar, 1759-65. Ord. deacon (Bath and Wells), Sept. 23, 1764, described as ;LL.B.;; priest, Sept. 22, 1765; C. of Elm, Somerset, 1764.