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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 27, 1812. Of Suffolk. [S. of William, of Woodbridge.] ' Matric. Michs. 1813; Scholar, 1816; B.A. (12th Wrangler) 1817; M.A. 1820. C. of Lyndhurst, Hants., 1825-8. C. of East Dereham, Norfolk, 1828-9. R. of Whissonsett and Horningtoft, 1829-65. Formerly chaplain at Berlin. Chaplain to H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, 1865-81. P.C. of St George's, Gt Yarmouth, 1865-81. Married, June 29, 1826, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Francis Riddell Reynolds, of Gt Yarmouth. Author, Isaaci Wattsii Carminum Fasciculus qui inscribitur, Divine Songs; The Course of Christian Obedience, etc. Died June 10, 1881, at Gt Yarmouth, aged 86. Father of William F. (1846), Henry J. (1853) and John G. (1856). (Cambridge Chronicle, July 7, 1826; Crockford; Foster, Index Eccles.; Boase, II. 189.)