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Adm. sizar (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, May 21, 1741. S. of Robert, draper, of Middlewich, Cheshire. B. there. School, Leeds, Yorks. (Mr Barnard). ' Matric. 1741; B.A. 1744-5; M.A. 1748. Fellow, 1747-55. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Sept. 21, 1746; priest (London) Sept. 20, 1747. R. of Kirby-on-Wiske, Yorks., 1753-6. V. of Piddletown, Dorset, 1756-63. V. of Catterick, Yorks., 1763-73. Afterwards ministered in a Unitarian Chapel, Essex Street, Strand. Author, theological. Died Nov. 3, 1808. (Scott-Mayor, III. 516; D.N.B.)